Development of Affordable Building Construction with Appropriate Green Materials in Nigeria

Appropriate Green Materials for Affordable Building Construction in Nigeria

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.d7668.118419 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 986-991

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Building Materials ◽

Low Cost ◽

Central Zone ◽

Green Building ◽

Building Construction ◽

High Price ◽

North Central ◽

Green Materials

There are severe issues for the deficiency of affordable house for low-income earners in developing countries such as Nigeria. The high cost of conventional materials has been established to be one the major factors that heightened the cost of building in recent times. However the integration of green building materials that are relevant and sustainable for building construction in the present dispensation will provide excellent solutions to overcome high price of construction. The study was carried out on all the available green materials in north-central Nigeria. Surveyed instrument was prepared and distributed to building professional experts that are registered member of various professional bodies in the building sector. Four hundred questionnaires were distributed in the north-central zone. Three hundred five questionnaires that were filled correctly was used for the data analyses. Analysis of moments (AMOS) software through the structural equation model (SEM) was used to analysis and generated a model for the study. The result discloses that earth bricks, stone/rocks, timber, Bamboo, thatches, straw fibre, and rice husk are very relevant green materials that can be used to achieve affordable building construction. Therefore, the use and integration of green materials in building construction will produce low cost housing units

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Case Study of Efficiency Improvements Using Matrix Methods of Production Management in Building Construction

Construction Research Congress 2020 ◽

10.1061/9780784482889.064 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Augusto Tiezzi ◽

David Lott ◽

Wayne Lott ◽

William J. O’Brien ◽

John Borcherding

Keyword(s):

Production Management ◽

Building Construction ◽

Matrix Methods

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BIM Technologies In Building Construction Projects Management In Russia

Promyshlennoe i Grazhdanskoe Stroitel stvo ◽

10.33622/0869-7019.2019.10.48-59 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 48-59

Keyword(s):

Project Management ◽

Economic Efficiency ◽

Technology Implementation ◽

Management System ◽

Construction Projects ◽

Technology Development ◽

Integrated Management ◽

Building Construction ◽

Information Modeling ◽

Project Management System

The international experience of integrating building information modeling (BIM) into project management system with innovation implementation accent has been revealed in this article. The events carried out on federal and regional levels concerning the President of Russia directive on building construction industry modernization and construction objects transferring to life cycle management by means of BIM were analyzed. The large company experience of implementing BIM was summarized with describing some examples in different cities and regions of our country and thus the main directions of this technology development were determined. The key points of BIM and project management system pairing and impacting an innovation choice witch determine the project economic efficiency in the integrated management system were shown. The main reports of "Building construction projects technology and management: new practices and prospects" conference by Moscow Trade and Commerce Chamber were reviewed in this direction and problems of the new investment and construction project management technology implementation were shown. The ways to solve these problems were disclosed by work examples of PAO "Sberbank", and successfully working in our country firms Bilfinger Tebodin - BIM design and Beiten Burkhard -jurisdiction support. Some economic efficiency questions of BIM implementation were disclosed in the report delivered by The Plekhanov University of Economics (project and program management base department of Capital Group). Management system suggestions, regarding BIM implementation in Moscow construction were given.

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