Housing design practice and energy efficiency consideration in Nigeria

Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita and Hussaini, Ibrahim Udale (2011) Housing design practice and energy efficiency consideration in Nigeria. In: Third International Conference on Applied Energy, 16 - 17 May 2011, Perugia, Italy.

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Abstract

The growing concern on the reduction of energy consumption in the residential sector of national economies rests on some parameters and issues that deserve to be resolved. Fundamental among these issues are the architectural concern, the appliances/ services efficiency issue: and most recently the human behavioral dimension. This study focuses on the architectural issue with the objective of determining the level of energy efficiency consideration in housing design practice by the housing stakeholders in Nigeria, with a notion that arousing the professional cultures of the stakeholders, particularly architects and building services engineers in the directions of efficiency can help improve energy efficiency design practice. This is in recognition of the fact that more than one third of the world’s energy is used in buildings: and a majority in houses and apartments (Wulfinghoff, 2003) [1]. Therefore, instituting energy efficiency design practice would lead to attainment of significant reduction in household energy consumption. This study employs opinion survey on the stakeholders (architects, building services engineers and builders) as a measure of their perception and practice in our attempt to evolve energy efficiency housing design practice guidelines. The result reveals an obvious gap in housing design practice and energy efficiency consideration in Nigeria.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Full Paper)
Additional Information:	2995/29079
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Energy Consumption, Energy Efficiency, Housing, Design Practice, Professional Culture, Nigeria
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture > NA100 Architecture and the state
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design > Department of Architecture
Depositing User:	Dr Noor Hanita Abdul Majid
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2013 09:45
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2013 09:45
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/29079

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