Oladimeji Samuel Bolaji- Doctor of Philosophy
- Lecturer at University of Ilorin
Oladimeji Samuel Bolaji
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Lecturer at University of Ilorin
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Introduction
Bolaji Samuel OLADIMEJI Ph.D, MNIA, Reg. Arch, M-AARCHES
is a Lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture and has served in the department as a level adviser, Examination officer, and coordinator of the department; presently, he is the postgraduate coordinator of the architecture department. He is a registered Architect with Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) and
Current institution
Education
April 2018 - February 2023
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Publications (23)
Housing is pivotal to the socioeconomic development and the life of a nation. Rapid population growth and urbanisation are creating escalating demand for added living spaces; hence, there is the need to maintain the existing housing units in order to increase housing stock. This study therefore appraises the maintenance practise of housing faciliti...
Rainwater harvesting is one of the viable ways of supplementing the surface and underground scarce water
resources in areas where existing water supply system is inadequate to meet demand as being one of the potent
measures for reducing impact of climate change on water supplies. The aim of this study was to estimate the
rainwater harvesting potent...
Housing shortages are one of the key issues in Nigeria, low-income earners are disproportionately affected. Themajority of the low cost housing designed for this population is out of reach because of high cost of constructionmaterials, among other things. This study examined bricks made of plastic sand as a substitute for building materials.A quest...
It is a common belief that certain behaviors are influenced by a person's social level. This claim is taken to apply to housing maintenance in any society, whether it is owned or rented. The aim of this study is to identify the socioeconomic indicators that are most predictive of the maintenance level of houses in mass housing schemes in the metrop...
Housing is pivotal to the overall well-being and total quality of life of individuals. The surge of coronavirus pandemic,
a respiratory problem in the world has come too rapidly and poor housing quality is believed to have the greatest impact
on its spread. This is due to the fact thatbecause people spend more time in houses. This paper, therefore,...
In developing nations such as Nigeria, the housing industry lacks appropriate and highquality housing. One of the housing development concepts and shelter delivery systems in practice in developing nations Nigeria inclusive are public, private and public–private. These three delivery strategies involves in mass housing production, although the bulk...
Every cultural group in the globe has its own peculiarity of its own traditional architecture, though the approach may differ from places to places. This paper looks at the vernacular architecture of the Southwestern Nigeria as practices by the indigenous Yorubas who have a peculiar climatic and socio-cultural and religious practice. The approach t...
The astronomical factors, geographical location, propensity, and temperature variability over time determined Nigeria’s surface temperature and spatial distribution. As such, this investigation
focuses on the harmonic temperature and sunshine of a northern and western station in Nigeria. The daily data for temperature and sunshine are collected fo...
Most houses in cities are in deteriorating condition. Globally, over a billion people are living
in inadequate, overcrowded, unmaintained and poor quality houses.This study, therefore,
assessed the maintenance culture of mass housing schemes in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara state,
Nigeria, to improve the living condition of houses.
The research is qua...
Building materials cost has been identified as one of the major problems confronting housing supply in developing countries like Nigeria. Roofing materials constitute majorly to the cost of housing production where timber and conventional steel are widely deplored as roof trusses. Deforestation and the cost of timber have been major challenges for...
This study examined the performance of property investment relative to availability of neigbourhood infrastructure in North Central Nigeria. A Frankfort-Nachmias model was applied and arrived at 817 sample size. Descriptive and inferential methods were adopted to analyse the data collected. The result revealed a better performance on property inves...
Divers urban populations, including the poor, adduced urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) as essential food sources. Urban agriculture (UA) as a safe city concept is increasingly considered a building block in ensuring safe living and economic prosperity and as a leeway of returning the cities to city dwellers. Arguments favouring safe cities re...
In Nigerian public universities, there are acute shortage of on-campus student accommodation. However, the introduction of Private Public partnership through Build-Operate-and-Transfer (BOT) scheme has yielded a lot of positive results in reducing the gap created by shortage of student accommodation. The success recorded by this programme is been t...
This study assesses the knowledge and attitude of people on the use of corbel arch for
lintel construction to reduce concreting in housing construction. Ogbomoso was the case study
and Ikose community was purposively selected being a fringe area receiving an influx of people
from the city. Google earth and ground-truthing were used in capturing...
The informal housing is most prevalent around the world as more population lives in settlements that are unplanned with poor conditions. This study evaluated the socioeconomic characteristics of gender (male and female) in relation to urban informal housing development in Southwestern Nigeria. The cross-sectional survey design was adopted while mul...
The study examined a review of literature on African cultural belief on housing development and ownership by women, barrier and ways for management. Studies on gender and housing have focused on roles of women in housing development and involvement in decision making. The paper observed that in development of housing, women face challenges as cultu...
The study examines the health risk associated with of housing design in three different residential districts located within Ogbomoso, Nigeria. Variables considered as determinants, based on households' survey and used for appraisal in this study include; quality of environment in terms of good layout, type of house/ building, volume of fenestratio...
Mass housing programmes have not yielded much in Nigeria due to high cost of provision arising from utilization of conventional building materials; thus, people have continued to live in substandard, overcrowded and dilapidated houses which have socio-psychological effects on the well-being of residents. This paper therefore, conducted an opinion s...
