STUDENTS' HOSTEL FOR ADEYEMI FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION,ONDO, NIGERIA: ENHANCING FIRE SAFETY IN STUDENTS HOSTEL.

Abstract

This study looks at the student’s hostel for Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, housing is a basic necessity of life. A safe and risk free hostel is a social right of any student who had been given accommodation in any of the hostels. The increasing number of students in tertiary institution, Adeyemi Federal University of Education in particular has raised accommodation problems. The consequences of this is overcrowding of the available hostels leading to increased pressure on the available ones the infrastructural facilities making the hotels fire prone. Any building can be fire prone if from inception fire safety plans has not been designed into it. The current trend of fire is hostel building is a source of concern in our society today. There has been a lot of incidence of fire in hostels where students has lost their lives, valuable properties and is some cases the building almost totally consumed. Adeyemi Federal University of Education has had her own share of fire outbreaks in hostels and in the last major incidence even though no life was lost, the students lost all their valuables in the building. Fire issues need to be reconciled with the building codes and fire safety designs from the inception of any building project with the involvement of every professionals involved and especially the architect who proposes the design and specifies materials. This study identified the problems associated with fire in hostel buildings and proffers solution through architectural design approach to enhance fire safety by prevention of fire, limit spread, minimize damage and maximize life safety of the users and even the fire fighters.