CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.1 INTRODUCTION: Every day consumers buy things. Consumers exchange their money for goods and services, for their own use and for the use of their families: Consumers choose things they think will meet their needs on a day-to-day basis, and they occasionally make buying decisions which will affect their lives […]
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BUILDING COLLAPSE : A CHALLENGE FOR THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES IN NIGERIA
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Incidences of the fall of buildings in Nigeria are posing major concerns and challenge to all the players in the construction industry- building consultants, governments, developers, landlords and users. Examples of such incident include collapse of Multi-Storey Building at Mokola, Ibadan,Oyo State (1974), building under construction at Benjamin […]
EFFECT OF THE USE OF SUB-STANDARD MATERIALS ON BUILDING CONSTRUCTION (CASE STUDY OF MINISTRY OF HOUSING, LAGOS STATE)
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Buildings are shelters specifically created to accommodate people and to stand as storage for their valuable things (Oyenuga, 2010). (Oyenuga, 2010). The materials used for the construction of buildings varies on the type and function of the building. Significant variables such as the design, materials, and resources to […]
A CRITICAL STUDY ON THE PROSPECT AND CHALLENGES OF EFFECTIVE POWER GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF IBOM POWER PLANT IKOT ABASI)
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Electricity generation constitute the generation of electric power from sources of primary energy. For electric utilities in the electric power industry, it is the first stage in the delivery of electricity to end users, the other stages being transmission, distribution, energy storage and recovery, using the pumped-storage […]
ASSESSMENT OF THE LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT This study was carried out on the assessment of the level of technology adoption in Construction Industry in Nigeria. A comprehensive questionnaire was designed and administered to the respondents (construction industry professional) for data collection and analysis. A total of 63 respondents to a questionnaire survey most of which were construction companies provided empirical […]
ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF SUSTAINABLE BUILDING MATERIALS FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
ABSTRACT This study investigated the assessment of the impact of sustainable building materials for construction project. This study adopted a descriptive survey design. The study used simple random sampling to select 240 respondents for the study from the field of Architecture, Building, Civil Engineering, and Quantity surveying in Lagos state. The data for this study […]
BASIC SOIL TEST ON SUB-GRADE SOIL MATERIAL FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT DESIGN ON ROAD LINKING
BASIC SOIL TEST ON SUB-GRADE SOIL MATERIAL FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT DESIGN ON ROAD LINKING. Chapter One COLLECTION OF SAMPLES AND LABORATORY TESTING PROGRAM The test carried out in this project was on distributed soil sample. This implies collecting soil samples that are disfigured their natural shape. Soil samples were collected on three (3) trial pit along […]
COMPARING THE STRENGTH AS BLOCKS MADE FROM CEMENT AND LATERITIC SOIL CEMENT AND RED EARTH LATERITE SAND AND RED EARTH
COMPARING THE STRENGTH AS BLOCKS MADE FROM CEMENT AND LATERITIC SOIL CEMENT AND RED EARTH LATERITE SAND AND RED EARTH. ABSTRACT This case study is “comparing the strength of blocks made from: cement stabilized laterite blocks, cement stabilized red earth blocks and sand, red earth and laterite blocks and mud blocks dried in the kiln. […]