Eighty percent of rural housing in Africa is still being constructed with 100% local content. In Nigeria today, even though there is still a high percentage of modern housing construction and development, we still find over 60% of rural housing being entirely constructed with locally sourced building materials such as; soil, burnt bricks unprocessed wood, [...]
DREAM A LITTLE BREEAM Building methods can result in high energy usage, large quantities of waste, poor occupancy comfort and low user satisfaction. However, Breeam building assessments can address the environmental impact of these issues and provide a range of benefits to all involved with buildings. Breeam – the Building Research Establishment’s environmental assessment method [...]
Architectural Concept Design – Value Added Architecture INTRODUCTION The question frequently asked by those who have an economic world view – those who say that the world is made out of demand and supply and there is nothing else – and explains the love and compassion in terms of demand and supply with the ‘economist [...]
The building Access Consultancy is a profession that is tied into a complete package called the Building Survey. The Access Consultant is responsible for accessibility aspects of the building project. An Access Consultancy report is prepared. This accessibility report involves not only the issue of ready movement to and around the building, but must [...]
Building Electrical Design requires adequate domain knowledge, Cad expertise and experience of integrating electrical and lighting design for BIM coordination and project planning. For the lighting design one need to fetch and deliver data from CAD/AutoCAD drawing (power distribution specifications, cable dimensions, switch layouts etc.) to the calculation module, and send the output back to [...]
A steel building construction project may seem like a difficult and complex task to those that haven’t had any experience in construction, but following a few simple guidelines in planning in preparation, the experience can turn from a task to an enjoyable adventure. The key to a successful steel building project is in effective planning. [...]