BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUE
BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUE
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1978-07
Authors
AHMADU, TAMO MBARA
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Abstract
I observed that our country Nigeria has been
bless tremendously with local building materials
e.g. Laterite and l a t e r i t i c s o i l , timber, bamboo,
o i l from which plastics is a by product e t c . Its
sad to notice that this country imports on an
increasing trend building materials, some of which
the raw materials arc ore available in this country
e.g. Brick.
Our country is very diverse climatically; ranging
from the r a i n forest of the south to the semi-arid
region of the North. Therefore the influence of
climatic agents (wind, rain, temperature etc) on our
building materials varies.
At this stage of our National Development when
the federal Government has just realised that we are
not so much r i c h as wo thought we were, the early wo
embark on research in building construction and
materials the better for us. It is definitely check
i n f l a t i o n in the construction industry.
So far there is no such an I n s t i t u t e in the
country therefore I'm the f i r s t person to handle such
a design. From existing ones in India, Canada, there
is a lot of rooms for improvement as far as the
Architecture of such an I n s t i t u t e is concerned. There
is great need of f l e x i b i l i t y and growth
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A THESIS
Presented to the Department of Architecture
Faculty of Environmental Design of Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria in partial fulfillment
of the requirement for the
DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN
ARCHITECTURE.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA, NIGERIA
JUNE ,1978
Keywords
BUILDING,, RESEARCH,, INSTITUE.