A survey of environmental performance enhancement
strategies and building data capturing techniques in the
Nigerian context

Omoragbon, O; Al-Maiyah, SAM; Coates, SP

Abstract

Abstract: The need to improve the performance of Nigeria’s office buildings is due to, energy challenges, increasing population, changing user needs, and climate change. With the expansion of
several Nigerian cities, existing buildings constitute a significant portion of the building stock, and improving their environmental performance could be more cost-effective than reconstruction. The use of simulation packages to assess alternative retrofitting enhancement scenarios is a straightforward approach. However, in Nigeria it is often challenging to get appropriate information to facilitate
this type of evaluation; many buildings were not built to their original specifications, and when
available, the records are often in a poor state due to deterioration. Studies that aimed at enhancing
a building’s performance hardly stated the acquisition of the required building information. This
paper investigates current practices and future possibilities of improvement measures and data
capturing of existing buildings using a questionnaire survey of 133 building professionals in Benin
City. The inter-relationship between energy efficiency, the environment, and building design with a
high potential for meaningful retrofit to mitigate energy inefficiencies is known but not fully utilized.
The collected thought on current practices signifies the need for developing a more economical and
reliable methodology for data capturing and evaluation.

Citation

Nigerian context. Buildings, 13(2), 452. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020452

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Conference Name: CIB
• Acceptance Date: Feb 2, 2023
• Publication Date: Feb 7, 2023
• Deposit Date: Apr 18, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 18, 2023
• Journal: Buildings
• Electronic ISSN: 2075-5309
• Publisher: MDPI
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 452
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020452
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/ buildings13020452
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference