Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Document Type General
Publish Date 10/09/2020
Author Shogo Musbau Adeniyi and Sarajul Fikri Mohamed
Published By IOP Publishing
Edited By Tabassum Rahmani
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NIGERIA: CHALLENGES OF GREEN MATERIALS FOR CONSTRUCTION FOR LOW-COST BUILDING

Housing plays an essential role in the well-being of people because it is the only place where people can fall back to relax and re-calibrate to put body and soul together. Thus, this paper has been part of the more extensive study on the prospects and challenges of green materials an alternative material to provide housing for the low-income earners at an affordable price in developing countries such as Nigeria. The approach used to carry out the research is gathering information through a primary and secondary sources. Four hundred structured questioners were designed and administered to the experts in the building industry out of which 305 were considered usable after the data screening on the subject matter. The analysis was carried out with a statistical package for social science (SPSS) 23 software, the results from the response received reveal that relevant green materials have the following advantages affordability, renewability and naturality, free from volatile organic compound, durability among others. On the other, it has hitches of human neglect, lack of information, socioeconomic influence, climate and weather influence among others.

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