Adopting alternative building materials, technologies to reduce housing deficit
Adopting alternative building materials, technologies to reduce housing deficit Adopting alternative building materials, technologies to reduce housing deficit Adopting alternative building materials, technologies to reduce housing deficit For Nigeria to bridge the 16 million housing gap, there is need to change from convectional building methods to modern ones that encourage mass housing on a large scale and at cheaper rates alternative building materials, technologies Anywhere in the world where housing needs of the populace has been met, it has been through the use of alternative building technologies for large housing projects. In Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa has been in the forefront of employing new technologies in the development of low income housing. With Nigeria’s housing deficit of over 16 million according to United Nation’s statistics, population growth rate of 2.5 per cent, urbanisation at 3.8 per cent coupled with high rate of environmental degradation