Professionals’ Perception of the Challenges of Sustainability of Green Materials for Construction Projects in Abuja, Nigeria
Zubair Ahmed
Department of Quantity Surveying, School of Environmental Studies.
The Federal Polytechnic, Idah.
Email: zubairahmed6295@gmail.com.
ABSTRACT
The clamour for sustainable development and reduction of greenhouse gases led to the green concept which in recent times, has gained significant momentum. It is a well-known fact that housing play an essential role in the wellbeing of people because it is only place where people can fall back to relaxed and re – calibrated to put body and soul together. The purpose of this study was to investigate professionals’ perception on the challenges of sustainability of green materials for construction projects in FCT Abuja and to identify the challenges militating against green materials for construction projects. A structured questionnaire was used to collect information from various respondents who were construction professionals. The survey was conducted using random sampling techniques were used to select one hundred and twenty (120) respondents out of which (90) of them were suitable for analysis, which represent a potential responses rate of seventy five percent (75%) of the total. The data were analyzed using simple percentile and mean item score. The research shows that built environment professionals need more sensitization to
raise the level of awareness is recognized. The finding revealed that green
features lack of awareness, human neglect, limited accessibility to relevant
information, social economic influence, climatic and weather influence, client’s preference, non availability of local materials, no standard for structural control of the green building, lack of adequate knowledge and technical know –how by professionals to handle the job, lack of interest in sustainable building development. In conclusion, there is need to educating the relevant parties to raise awareness of the green concept is vital to overcoming several challenges in the dissemination of sustainable practice such as lack of awareness and knowledge of these methods.
Keywords: Green materials, Challenges, Construction projects.
