The utilization of agricultural wastes and other locally available materials in the construction industry would foster environmental sustainability and even lead to overall reduction in construction cost. This research ...

The investigation in this report, focuses on the failure assessment of reinforced concrete buildings under gross error (human error) relating to design and construction. The parameters used in the structural appraisal were ...

Water is a social good whose importance to life cannot be over-emphasized. Conjunctive use is a water management strategy for optimum usage of available sources of water in a sustainable manner taking into consideration a ...

Construction industry is complex in nature because it contains large number of project parties such as clients, consultants, contractors, stakeholders, shareholders and regulators. Construction projects in Akure, Ondo ...

Discharge of untreated industrial effluents containing heavy metals is hazardous to the environment as they are highly toxic, accumulates in food chain and persistent in nature. Hence, their removal from water is a substantial ...

The main goals of rural development are to improve the living conditions and reduce poverty among the people and hence water which is essential for life must be obtained in adequate quantity and quality in order to ensure ...

In recent time, progressive failure/collapse analysis of structures has become popular challenge among the structural engineers due to the progressive collapse of popular structures such as World Trade Center in New York, ...

The use of pozzolans has been recently discovered to improve the particle packing which in turn improves the compressive strength, durability characteristics and other properties of Portland cement pastes, mortars and ...

Non-linear regression models have been calibrated to predict the cost of road construction based on data collected from contracts awarded for some of the past road construction projects in Ondo State. Models were based on ...

The Edo State Central Senatorial District comprising of five Local Government Areas with about one hundred and fifty six towns, communities and camps has a population of three hundred and seventy-two thousand, one hundred ...