Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 2025, 15(5), 2025-190
Student Housing Safety: Differential Contributions of Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Facilities Management Maintenance Services in Ghana
1
Senior Lecturer, Department of Construction Management and Quantity
Surveying, Durban University of Technology, 4001, Durban, South Africa,
E-mail: IrukaA@dut.ac.za (corresponding author).
2 Lecturer, Department of Real Estate, SD Dombo University of
Business and Integrated Devlopment Sudies, Box 3 FPLM, SDD-UBIDS, Ghana,
E-mail: wappau@ubids.edu.gh
3 Professor, Department of Real Estate, SD Dombo University
of Business and Integrated Devlopment Sudies, Box 3 FPLM, SDD-UBIDS,
Ghana, E-mail: aattakora@ubids.edu.gh
Project Management
Received February 19, 2025; revised June 16, 2025; August 28, 2025; accepted August 28, 2025
Available online November 25, 2025
Abstract: The rise in fire outbreaks, with its consequences on student housing safety in Sub-Saharan Africa, is worrisome. While facilities management maintenance services are crucial to preventing and controlling LPG usage in student housing, scholars have yet to quantify their mediating role in student housing safety. Based on this, the study assesses the contributions of facilities management maintenance services to student housing safety in Ghana. A sample of 245 registered off-campus student housing managers in northern Ghana was selected. Using the Post-Occupancy Evaluation technique through surveys and partial least squares structural equation modelling, the study uncovered the positive significance of observed indicators of LPG, Facilities Management Maintenance, and Student housing safety. Also, LPG usage showed strong direct impact on student housing safety. However, LPG recorded moderate effects on student housing safety through Facilities management maintenance service. Based on this, the study recommended a high concentration for observed indicators of FMM to control and manage environmental safety, physical safety, and overall student safety in off-campus student housing in Ghana.
Keywords: Energy, facilities management, ,maintenance, structural equation model, student housing safety.
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Citation: Anugwo, I. C., Appau, W. M., and Attakora-Amaniampong, E. (2025). Student Housing Safety: Differential Contributions of Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Facilities Management Maintenance Services in Ghana. Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 15(5), 2025-190.
DOI:
10.32738/JEPPM-2025-190
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