Barriers and Aspirations for Sustainable Local Building Materials Selections in Nigeria

• Main Authors: Saba, Liman Alhaji, Ahmad, Mohd. Hamdan, Abdul Majid, Roshida
• Format: Article
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: NA Architecture
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81307/; http://www.jmest.org/wp-content/uploads/JMESTN42352186.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The construction activities have an effect upon the environment; it is consumer of a wide range of nature and synthesized products or resources. Sustainable local building materials selection beset with organisational and procedural difficulties meant by the use of environmental friendly materials that can reduce impacts on environment. These hindrances can be reduced by learning what kind of decision-making stages, new tasks, actors, functions and communication. The research adopted mixed method (qualitative and quantitative). The finding shows the existing gap between awareness and implementation of sustainable local building materials selection in decision making process, suggest the barriers that are valuable and sustainable for use in practice.