AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE LEVEL OF ADHERENCE TO THE BUILDERS DOCUMENT IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

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2013
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DODO, Mansir KABIR, Ibrahim TSADU, Abdullahi Muhammad
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Since 2006, the Builders documents have been on transition in gaming limelight from its inclusion as contract documents in the National Building Code. Vie Code solely recognises the Builder as being responsible for the preparation of the Project Quality Management Plan, the Project Health and Safety Plan and the Construction Methodology. This study investigates the level of adherence to the usage of theBuilders documents amongst professionals in the Nigerian construction industry. Simple random sampling was used to fetch datafrom the 56 professionals studied through a structured questionnaire with only 40 of them returning after filling. It was found that even though 85 percentofthe respondents are aware of the existence of the Builders documents, majority do not fully use all 3 documents and three of the professionals studied still choose not to use the even though they are familiar with them. It was recommended that while more enlightenment should be done on the imperatives of the Builders documents in Building project delivery, better implementation mechanisms of the documents should also be enforced by statutory authorities so that construction delivery will be more efficient.
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Department of Building, Faculty of Environmental Design, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria. Estate Unit, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.