Abiodun Olukayode Olotuah

Federal University of Technology | futa · Department of Architecture

The challenge of excessive heat gain in buildings has become a major source of concern, especially in residential buildings. This is because the build-up of heat within indoor spaces of residential buildings causes thermal discomfort for the occupants. The objective of the study was to examine different geometries of shading devices and their effec...

Enugu metropolis has faced high building and infrastructure maintenance needs, whose solutions require the synergy of both residents and facility providers. This is because robust solutions are required as the rate of the population increase could overwhelm the capacity of the residents to cope. The objective of the study was to examine the differe...

Improving access to good quality and sustainable housing environment for residents in urban areas in the developing world has been engaging the attention of housing scholars, researchers and developers. Consequently, the extent to which government-constructed residential estates in urban areas are providing residents with good quality housing envir...

Socioeconomic status of residents fashion their aspirations and contributes as they make housing decisions that influence their level of satisfaction. Interest in residents' satisfaction study grew mainly with widespread consumer protection awareness over the years; thus, interests in housing has shifted from production to marketing, then to adapta...

Air temperature is usually the most important environmental variable that affects human sensation in a thermal environment. Determining the effect of the indoor air temperature, on occupants' perception of a thermal environment in design studios where architecture students spend long periods of time daily is therefore important. The study investiga...

Part of the functional requirements of buildings is to provide safe and enabling environment for the performance of various human activities. Most buildings, however, begin to exhibit signs of deterioration with the advancement of time, even when all the original elements are replaced. A poorly maintained school building in a dilapidated environmen...

Poor housing and poor environmental quality have been associated with adverse effects on health of residents and their quality of life, emotional and psychological well-being. The quality of housing and building environment is therefore essential for residents’ residential satisfaction. This study analysises and examines the satisfaction levels of...

Energy efficient houses consume less energy while maintaining or improving the comfort conditions of occupants. Energy efficient buildings result in less environmental impact and are economically and environmentally sustainable. Residential buildings account for the majority of electricity consumption in Nigeria. Because of the poor state of energy...

In the phenomenal urban growth of cities Nigeria has experienced poor and haphazard urban planning. The cities are generally characterized by poor and inadequate and inefficient urban services and infrastructure. Energy use is closely related to the level of productivity in business and other activities. A primary challenge to the business environm...

Residential and neighbourhood satisfaction are important indicators of housing quality and conditions which affect individual’s quality of life. This study which was conducted in 2018 evaluated the level of satisfaction in terms building features in six completed and occupied housing estates in Benin city, namely the federal owned estate at Ikpoba...

The objective of the study is to analytically assess the residents’ perception of planning of six housing estates and their satisfaction levels in Benin City, Edo state, Nigeria. The population of the study comprises all residents of the six housing estates in Benin City as at 2018 which is the study period. The data were collected from the six (6)...

Housing conditions have attending impacts on occupants and social development of neighbourhoods at large. However, research studies detailing the current state of dwelling housing at international border areas between developing countries is limited or non-available. This study, therefore, investigates housing conditions in these areas with a parti...

In Nigeria there is a wide variety of house forms across its length and breadth, which developed in accordance with the cultures of the people, their level of technological development and the dictates of their climates. These house forms reflect the diversity of the natural domestic architecture of Nigeria's different ethnic groups. These house fo...

Housing is a major need of humanity which is highly deficient in many developing countries. Research findings have shown that there is a monumental deficiency in housing, in qualitative and quantitative terms, in the urban centres in Nigeria. Housing development is severely hampered by a myriad of factors in Nigeria. Because housing is central to q...

The magnitude of housing need in Nigeria is daily soaring whereas the ability of the populace, in particular low-income government workers, to make effective homing demand has not appreciated over the years. Research has shown that adequate housing is largely out of the economic reach of most workers. The inadequacy in housing experienced by worker...

Sustainable energy-efficient housing is environmentally-conscious housing. Energy efficient houses consume less energy while maintaining or improving the comfort conditions of occupants. This paper examines low carbon initiatives in housing construction in Nigeria based on the use of stabilized soil blocks, solid interlocking blocks, and supplement...

Housing need in Nigeria is continuously on the increase both, in the rural and urban areas. Studies have shown overwhelming evidences of the appalling situation of housing in Nigeria, as it is the case in most Less Developed Countries. Housing development however could be greatly facilitated by recourse to the use of improved building materials of...

In this data article, questionnaire was administered to public secondary school teachers to investigate user-perceptions of the prevailing deterioration condition of the school buildings, in Ogun State, Nigeria. The condition of some factors such as, roof, paints, floor, walls, windows, doors, electrical, plumbing, toilets, WC, pipes, drains were t...

Industrial peace and harmony are important in minimizing conflicts in organisations and thus ensuring the maintenance of congenial industrial relations. The paper recognizes though, that conflicts are integral to the process of change and cannot be completely eliminated, and in fact some degree of conflict is necessary and normal. Collective bargai...

p>The production of building materials in Nigeria has over the years been dominated by large scale industrial concerns. These establishments thrived in the 1970s and 1980s when government industrialization policy was hinged on import substitution. They relied considerably on the importation of raw materials, machinery, and technology. The downturn...

Hausa traditional housing is informed and shaped by the culture of the people and their religious belief. The savannah region in northern Nigeria is the home of the Hausa people. The Hausas form the majority of the people inhabiting the middle belt and northern states of Nigeria. Across the Nigerian borders the Hausas are natives of the northern pa...

Housing regeneration is of utmost concern because housing is an indispensable human need, which is however deficient in many human societies. Housing is often quantitatively and qualitatively inadequate in most countries particularly Less Developed Countries. Since housing has direct impact on the health and well-being of people, its regeneration i...

This paper examines the quality of housing and the environment in two residential estates in Akure, the Ondo State capital, Nigeria. The two estates are situated at the fringe of the city; one was built by the state government and the other by the federal government. The paper reports findings from a research carried out on the housing estates. The...

This paper discusses teaching and learning in the design studio in architectural education in Nigeria, and the roles they play in promoting sustainable environment. Architectural design studio is one of the seven modules of study in architecture schools in Nigeria as stipulated by the National Universities Commission. A case study of the Federal Un...

Even though domestic energy can be from either renewable or non-renewable sources, the former is preferred because of its role in reducing both the operational energy intensity and carbon footprint. Given the positive role renewable energy plays in the energy mix, this paper examined the pattern of operational energy use with particular reference t...

The perception of residents on the quality of the public housing was the subject of this study. This was in the light of the fact that this approach is being increasingly adopted in the provision of housing for to mitigate deficiencies in this area. A survey of fifteen out of seventy-nine estates selected across the three separate income typologies...

This study assessed the existing maintenance strategies and policies in the public secondary school building adopted by the school principals. The purpose of the study is to investigate the maintenance strategy and policy practiced used by the maintenance managers of public secondary schools in the study area in Public Secondary School buildings in...

The housing sector in Nigeria is characterized by huge deficits coupled with un-innovative construction methods. Previous studies indicate a strong relationship between construction materials and techniques on the one hand and embodied energy on the other. Also, studies on construction innovation in Nigeria have focused on its economic and financia...

This paper examines the relationship between users' needs and housing quality. It appraises the influence of the needs of the user population on housing quality. The paper reports a research on housing an aspect of which is housing quality and variables impinging on it. Two public housing schemes in Ado-Ekiti, the capital city of Ekiti State, Niger...

Climate is the prevailing meteorological condition in a given region. It is a measure of the average pattern of variation in elements such as temperature, humidity, solar radiation and wind over long periods of time. The design of pleasant buildings that ensure physiological comfort of users is achieved through an understanding of the climate and t...

Nigeria is a developing country with severe housing deficiency. The quality of housing is particularly poor, and there is a high magnitude of housing needs while the vast majority of the populace does not have the wherewithal to make effective demand. There has been public sector intervention to ameliorate the appalling situation over the years, be...

This paper discusses the strategies for the provision of housing in Nigeria and the nexus with quality of housing. It reviews the various approaches at the provision of housing for Nigerian urban and rural dwellers since the independence of Nigeria over fifty years ago. The paper notes that housing need in Nigeria particularly in urban centres has...

There are three major sources of housing provision in Nigeria; namely public, private and popular sectors. The popular sector has provided the larger proportion of houses in the country and its activities mostly benefit the urban poor. Public sector intervention in housing with particular regard to low-income earners has been largely unsuccessful....

This paper discusses a strategy and functional approach for the provision of lowcost housing for the urban poor in Nigeria. It notes the rapid rate of urbanization occurring in Nigeria, which is due mainly to massive rural-urban drift, and explosive urban population growth. A major consequence of this occurrence has been the deterioration of housin...

The study shows the application of the analysis of variance test in managing students' performance in the department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. This study was carried out using a sample of 2 nd year architecture students in 2008/2009 academic session and the same set of students in their 3 rd year...

The construction industry is one of the largest solid waste generators all over the globe. Because waste generation from both new construction works, as well as renovation works has been on the increase, it is absolutely necessary for the construction industry to adopt ecologically sound planning and construction practices for the purpose of creati...

Housing is central to quality of life and consumes large amounts of resources in its construction, maintenance and use. It contributes significantly to sustainability because it consumes a substantial proportion of the global greenhouse gases. The building industry consumes a substantial percentage of the materials entering the global economy, and...

It is universally accepted that housing is humanity’s third most essential need after food and clothing. Rapid population growth and increasing urbanization have led to overcrowding in urban housing, homelessness and overstretching of existing infrastructure and services. This paper examines the various construction materials that are readily avail...

The article discusses slum conditions. A slum is an area characterised by poor buildings in physical state of disrepair, degraded environment, and absence of basic and essential facilities. Slum conditions result from the combined effects of natural ageing of buildings, lack of maintenance and neglect, wrong use of the buildings, poor sanitation in...

The housing situation in Nigeria is of deep concern for the government and the nation in the light of global warming. However, as studies have shown, the problem of housing is a universal one varying in different degrees from one country to another. Many buildings in Nigeria are inadequate qualitatively, and are located in insanitary environments....

In Nigeria housing provision is fraught with a plethora of problems especially for low-income earners who incidentally constitute the majority of the population. Fundamental to this is the lack of access to housing finance by this segment of the society. In view of its enormous cost, housing is the item of the highest expenditure of every household...

The goal of architectural education is directed towards the attainment of a humane and responsive environment. This is subsumed in the overall purpose of education, which is to prepare people to perpetuate and improve their society. In this endeavour architects are trained to understand the nature of societal problems in their environmental context...

This paper appraises housing development and the degeneration of the environment in Nigeria. It highlights that there is monumental deficiency in housing in Nigeria's urban centres as a result of population explosion, which is consequential of the rapid rate of urbanisation occurring in the country. Many buildings are inadequate qualitatively and a...

An important component of the human environment is housing, which has been described as a sine qua non for human existence. The quality of housing is an index of the standard of living of a people, and this is indeed of staggering inadequacy in Nigeria. Since the major thrust of architectural education is the attainment of a humane and responsive e...

he housing situation of the urban poor is a source of deep concern in Nigeria, as in most less dveloped countries (LDCs). However, as studies have shown, the problem of housing is a universal one, as virtually all countries are faced with the problem of providing adequate accommodation for their citizens. In the urban centres in Nigeria it has reac...

Gender-induced discriminatory practices against women are very common in Nigeria, as in most African countries. Gendered practices are socially and culturally constructed, and are as such informed by the values and norms of societies. These practices have hampered the development of women's capabilities, and have precluded equal economic and social...

Purpose The paper seeks to describe the historical development, current status, and operation of real estate law and policy in Nigeria in the context of global requirements for sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes the form of a literature and legislative review. It examines the existing real estate law and policy (L...

This paper appraises the quality of the built environment in Akure, the capital city of Ondo State, Nigeria. The paper reports findings from a research conducted in the city. The data obtained from the research show that only about one tenth of the buildings are sound and in good condition. Close on 90% of them require one form of repairs or the ot...

Due to the phenomenal rate of urbanisation occurring in Nigeria urban housing is rapidly deteriorating while there is no appreciable increase in the formation of new housing starts. In 1991 the Nigerian Public Sector formulated a National Housing Policy with the goal of ensuring adequate access to decent and affordable housing by all Nigerians. A n...

This paper discusses the housing quality in a city suburb, Oba-lle, which is a few kilometers from Akure, the capital city of Ondo State Nigeria. It reports finding from a research on housing studies in the study area. A linear model was developed through multiple regression analysis for the prediction of housing quality of the buildings therein. T...

The focus of this paper is the provision of low-cost housing in Nigeria. The paper notes the incidence of high magnitude of housing needs in Nigeria, which is symptomatic of severe shortages in adequate housing. The vast majority of Nigerians belong to the low-income group, and these generally lack the wherewithal to make effective demand of availa...

This paper critically reviews the critiques on architectural education in Nigeria. It focuses particular attention on the views and opinions of the doyen of architectural education in Nigeria, Prof Ekundayo Adeyinka Adeyemi; the former acting Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. The paper affirms the need for a r...

ABSTRACT There is a high magnitude of housing inadequacy in urban centres in Nigeria. This is manifested in quantitative and qualitative terms. Severe overcrowding and insanitary physical environment characterize the housing in the urban centres. The culminating effect of this is the growth of slum areas. This paper takes a critical look at slum d...

ABSTRACT: This paper takes a look at architectural education in Nigeria. It examines its historical development, and its relevance to Nigerias national needs. The paper asserts that the curriculum of architectural education in Nigeria has, over the years, been developed in relation with local conditions with due emphasis placed on national needs a...

This paper appraises the state of repair of buildings in Akure, Nigeria. The paper reports findings from a research conducted by the author. The objectives of the study include the examination of the material characteristics of the buildings, and the examination of the variables that impinge on their quality. A research instrument was designed to e...

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This is a research on the relationship between motivation and performance of workers in the Nigerian construction industry. It identifies a number of motivational schemes that enhance the performance of workers. Findings from the research on productivity of construction workers are reported. Two sets of questionnaires were employed in the study. On...

This paper apprises the management of solid wastes in Nigeria, with particular reference to Akure, the capital city of Ondo State. It affirms the incidence of the generation of tremendous quantity of solid wastes in Nigeria, estimated at 2.2 million tons per year, which are often improperly and inefficiently disposed. The paper reports findings fro...

In many African societies, there are unwritten customary laws that are oppressive to women. This briefing examines some cultural attitudes and practices in Nigeria that violate women's property rights both in paternal and matrimonial families. It presents various forms of violation of women's property rights from girlhood to widowhood, citing cases...

The provision of low-cost houses for the poor in Nigeria is the focus of this paper. Quality housing enhances the health and welfare of man and contributes immensely to his productivity, thus underscoring its importance as a fundamental need. The provision of low-cost houses is hinged to the availability of durable and affordable building materials...