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1. AN EXAMINATION OF HEAVY DOWNPOUR AS A CAUSE OF BUILDING COLLAPSE IN LAGOS STATE ...

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Over the past few years, Nigeria has experienced a significant increase in construction failures, leading to the loss of both lives and properties. However, media recently reported on the occurrence of building collapses in major Nigerian cities such as Lagos, Abuja, and Jos, as well as in other parts of the world. As the consequences of climate cha...Continue Reading »

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2. FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPETENCE AND PROJECT DELIVERY OF SMALL INDEGENIOUS CONST...

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Of Study Building construction is the process of assembling materials to form a building; it is generally performed by labourers and craft people engaged by an individual or organization called a contractor (Chudley and Greeno, 2010). The construction industry is made up of an organised formal sector of foreign companies and unorganised sector which c...Continue Reading »

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3. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAUSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT OF FIRE OUTBREAK IN NI...

» . CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the study From the earliest period, the fire that allowed man to prepare food, fight off predators, forge tools and even helped him to withstand harsh cold has also been a perpetual peril to him. The history of occupational fire danger inflicting substantial harm is quite ancient. The Great Fire of Rome (67CE) started in the shops of merchants who sold f...Continue Reading »

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4. ANALYSIS ON THE SAFETY AND MANAGEMENT METHOD OF FIRE FIGHTERS IN MANAGING FIRE O...

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the study There is a significant danger posed to people, animals, and even property by fires that originate from a range of different sources. It is thus of the utmost importance that fire departments, as designated and granted powers by the appropriate authorities, establish adequate and effective plans to not only manage fires and the damages that ensue ...Continue Reading »

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5. A CRITICAL INVESTIGATION ON SAFETY PRACTICE AMONG CONSTRUCTION BASED COMPANIES I...

» ABSTRACT This study was carried out to investigate on safety practice among construction based companies using Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company Ltd, Kano State as a case study. The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampling techniques were employed in this study. The population size comprised of staff of Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company Ltd, Kano State. In determining...Continue Reading »

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6. AN INVESTIGATION OF LATE AND NON PAYMENT ISSUES IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION IND...

» AN INVESTIGATION OF LATE AND NON PAYMENT ISSUES IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY CONTRACTORS’ PERSPECTIVE IN AKWA IBOM STATE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Of Study Nigeria's building industry is one of the country's most important. It accounts for around 2% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). It has a workforce of about two million people and uses a variety of expert...Continue Reading »

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7. ASSESSING THE PERCEPTION OF QUANTITY SURVEYOR ON ADOPTION OF E-PROCUREMENT TO MI...

» ABSTRACT This study was carried out to to assess the perception of quantity surveyors on adoption of E procurement to mitigate corrupt practices in public procurement using Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors as a case study. Specifically, the study was aimed at examining the benefits of e procurement in public procurement; examine the extent to which the adoption of e procurement will mitiga...Continue Reading »

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8. THE IMPACT OF MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF INTERGRATED BUILDING ...

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACK GROUND OF THE STUDY Modern man’s aims and aspirations call for unprecedented co operative effort out capacity to build the slimes to criminate pollution, to give individuals an opportunity for self expression to raise the standard of living, and to achieve our many other social and personal objectives rest on joint activity if individuals or...Continue Reading »

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9. MAKING HIGH CONCRETE STRENGTH FROM GRANULATED CALCINED CLAY

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Cement is a significant source of anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide. The CO2 derives mainly from kiln fuel combustion, transport and distribution and decarbonating of limestone. The latter source is fairly constant. Thus one procedure to lower the release of carbon dioxide is reducing the clinker conten...Continue Reading »

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10. APPRAISAL OF BUILDING MAINTENANCE PRACTICE AMONG LANDLORDS

» Abstract The study is appraisal of building maintenance practice among landlords in Niger central senatorial zone of Niger state. The specific purposes of the study were to find out the importance of building maintenance among landlords in Niger Central Senatorial District, find out the responsibilities of landlords and the rights of tenants in building maintenance practice in Niger Central Sen...Continue Reading »

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11. STRATEGIES FOR CONTROLLING CRACKS IN RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

» Abstract The study was designed to find out strategies for controlling cracks in residential building, in Niger south senatorial district. Among the specific purposes of the study were determining the availability to facilities for controlling cracks in residential building, determine the methods of detecting cracks in residential building, and determining the availability of personnel for d...Continue Reading »

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12. ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING MATERIAL WASTAGE ON BUILDING SITE IN NIGERIA

» ABSTRACT The study was carried to critically investigate the analysis of factors influencing material wastage on building sites in Kaduna State. To achieve this objective, three research questions were stated to guide this study. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, tables and graph to analyze research questions. A structured questionnaire was used as the major inst...Continue Reading »

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13. ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN THE EXECUTION OF PUBLIC SECTOR HOUSING PROJECTS IN NI...

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Housing (Shelter) is unarguably one of the basic necessities of man. It used to be ranked second after food in the hierarchy of man’s needs but according to Ebie (2009) it is the first and most important of all rights. According to him, because of the importance attached to housing and coupled with the fact that housing in all its ramifica...Continue Reading »

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14. ASSESSMENT FOR CONTROLLING OF DAMPNESS IN AN EXISTING BUILDING IN NIGERIA

» ABSTRACT This study investigated the assessment for controlling of dampness in an existing building in Nigeria. The study came as a result of the prevalent issues in the number of cases of building collapse in Nigeria especially in Lagos State. The descriptive research design was adopted for carrying out this study. Data were collected and analysed with the use of SPSS. The study had the fol...Continue Reading »

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15. BUILDING FAILURE AND COLLAPSE IN NIGERIA: THE INFLUENCE OF THE INFORMAL SECTOR

» Abstract The occurrence of building failure and collapse has become a major issue of concern in the development of this nation as the magnitudes of this incident are becoming very alarming. This paper therefore examines the incidents of building failure/collapse in Nigeria. By focusing on six major states from each of the six geo political regions of the country, the paper examined the contributor...Continue Reading »

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16. IMPACT OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND SAFETY CULTURE ON CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE

» CHAPTER ONE Introduction An overview of construction quality and safety reveals many striking similarities for these two management concept. In some cases safety is considered a part of total quality management (TQM). In the international construction scene, the inclusion of both the traditional qualities and safety efforts within a TQM system is advocated by Dias and Curado (1996). They suggest t...Continue Reading »

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17. STUDY OF FACTORS AFFECTING CONSTRUCTION COST PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIAN CONSTRUCT...

» ABSTRACT Maintaining steady cost projection on construction projects had been until recently an issue of serious concern, both to the client and project contractors. Cost deviation from initial Cost plan, had been prevalent on Construction sites. However, little or no efforts has made to curtail the phenomenon, it is against this background that this research work attempt to study the factors th...Continue Reading »

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18. BUILDING FAILURE AND COLLAPSE IN NIGERIA

» Abstract The occurrence of building failure and collapse has become a major issue of concern in the development of this nation as the magnitudes of this incident are becoming very alarming. This paper therefore examines the incidents of building failure/collapse in Nigeria. By focusing on six major states from each of the six geo political regions of the country, the paper examined the contributo...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 50 pages | 8,252 engagements |

19. STRUCTURAL REINFORCEMENT DETAILING OF A SINGLE STOREY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING

» ABSTRACT This is the presentation of an information on the structural reinforcement detailing of concrete members. Structural detailing is a branch of structural work that transposes the idea or works of a structural engineer into working drawing or easy utilization in the building construction n works. Working drawing are produced an engineer for easy use by the contractors. The processes de...Continue Reading »

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20. EFFECTS OF AGGREGATE SIZES ON THE CONCRETE STRENGTH

» ABSTRACT In the sense that the materials involved in this project were capital intensive more especially cement, so in carrying out the work one must have to be careful in the selection and collection of materials to be used in the casting of the concrete. The materials used are coarse aggregate (granite) fine aggregate (sand). The coarse aggregates used in this work were collected from ishiagu wh...Continue Reading »

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21. MANAGEMENT OF MATERIALS ON BUILDING CONSTRUCTION SITE

» Abstract The control of materials on construction sites is handled carelessly by planning and purchasing departments, site supervisors and engineers as well as contractor’s organization and this have been posing various problems to contractors in realizing reasonable profit margin. The research centered on the assessment of materials management on building projects in Ondo State Nigeria. Thi...Continue Reading »

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22. USE OF FORM WORK DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH BUILDING

» ABSTRACTThis research project is designed to critically assess the use of formwork design and construction of high rise building. The researcher has carried out an extensive research on how important well designed and constructed formwork could be in the construction of high rise building in Nigeria. The researcher in order to achieve this aim visited libraries, handouts, journals and distributed ...Continue Reading »

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23. THE IMPLICATION AND BENEFIT OF THE USE OF SOFTWARES IN BUILDING PROJECT CONSTR...

» Abstract Software is any set of machine readable instruction that directs a computer processor to perform specific operations. Microsoft project software (MS Project) is one of such software that is a program developed and sold by Microsoft which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to task tracking work progress, managing the budget ,analyzing wo...Continue Reading »

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24. MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING PROBLEMS OF SPECIALIST WORKS IN BUILDING

» Abstract The study considered the maintenance and servicing problems of specialist works in buildings. It shall identify the cause of damages to these specialist works. a unit of hero’s apartment Owerri was taken as a case study due to the on going maintenance work on the buildings for effective research work to be achieved, questionnaires will be distributed to all the professionals on si...Continue Reading »

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25. THE IMPACT OF BUDGETING AND BUDGETARY CONTROL IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT DELIVERY...

» 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY It is a known fact that the Nigerian construction industry continues to occupy an important position in the nation’s economy even though it contributes less than the manufacturing or other service industries, (Aibinu and Jagboro, 2002). The contribution of the construction industry to national economic growth necessitates improved efficiency in the industry by means o...Continue Reading »

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