searchng4love:

Hehehe timber hahaha timber kwakwakwa.... Ordinary bush burning na im go finish that kain house

tollyboy5:
We can't use steel for that kind of thing bro. Steel should be use for other stuff. Its a metal alloy and their component metals being excavated.
When it becomes scarce what are we going to do?

Though thats not an excuse for a failed country not to have steel industry

Aconomist:
We all know how common building collapse is in Nigeria, and this occurs because of our bad habit of building multi-storey buildings with concrete. In other parts of the world they are using steel, which is a far superior building material because it is lighter (doesn't put as much strain on the foundation) cheaper than Dangote cement, and requires less maintenance.

While steel needs to be imported, healthy demand would create a market incentive for domestic production. We need to start using creativity to solve our problem in Africa.

Advision:
I think its down to cost, steel is far more expensive to erect and subsequent modification may cost more.

Moreso, the physical properties of steel makes it an overkill for a typical bungalow or one storey apartment that litter most Nigerian town.

A lot of the high rise building are made of steel and composite materials

Ikengawo:


Timber that will deforest the world can't be better for carbon emissions. What is actually funny is how big nigerian bricks are. I feel like you can make 5 normal bricks from one nigerian block and cut the cost of cement used down by more than half.

emae009:


there are fire resistance coating that can be used.
This is one of the problem most construction works uses concrete and masonry blocks. The average Nigerian always imagine the worse case scenario.
How will bush burning occur in an urban environment?

Aconomist:
We all know how common building collapse is in Nigeria, and this occurs because of our bad habit of building multi-storey buildings with concrete. In other parts of the world they are using steel, which is a far superior building material because it is lighter (doesn't put as much strain on the foundation) cheaper than Dangote cement, and requires less maintenance.

While steel needs to be imported, healthy demand would create a market incentive for domestic production. We need to start using creativity to solve our problem in Africa.

emae009:
steel is not "far superior" than concrete. All building materials have both advantages and disadvantages.
One of the reasons has to do with the client. Sometimes before the client even request for a design, he has already purchase masonry blocks and other materials.
But then again Nigerians don't like to challenge themselves. Concrete is the default "comfort zone".
In the case of a net zero carbon emission buildings, Timber is the best alternative

anochuko01:

While timber is the best, It takes decades for a tree to grow. How then can we be able to keep up with deforestation?

While steel needs to be imported

prinsam30:



i love this and I'm making effort to achieve this in future, most of the houses I've been to in the united States actually uses timber, even flooring, it was so adoring, amazing and confort to live in

lexy2014:


Y won't u imagine worst case scenario? Isn't that part of risk management?

Yankee101:


You fell hundreds of tree to make timber and you call that zero carbon emissions?

Use recycled materials for true zero carbon

donpata:
First things first. Concrete is still used in the West. 2ndly consider cost. Who go start b4 that demand grows and crashes prices? Also, think of comfort of occupants. Nigeria is a "hot" place. Shey nepa go dey give light for cooling? How about the cost of installing cooling components. I ain't an expert but I think in terms of stability, concrete is better. No fear of wind pushing your house, no Need to bother about creaking sounds. More so, if there's a fire, at high temp, what happens to steel? Imagine if I wanna do a little renovation or adjustment, it's easier to just break one side of block work, it's like a cut and join thing. I don't see how using steel will make it easier cos obviously, u need power. The wahala go too much abeg. Ease of getting technicians sef na something also.

emae009:


there are fire resistance coating that can be used.
This is one of the problem most construction works uses concrete and masonry blocks. The average Nigerian always imagine the worse case scenario.
How will bush burning occur in an urban environment?

n3xt:
In Nigeria, when it comes to choosing the materials to construct a building, most people have cost in the forefront of their mind.

The general assumption of a rational mind is “steel construction is more expensive than the traditional brick and mortar construction.“

However, with the technological advances that have occurred in the building industry over the past decades, there are numerous alternative building solutions that not only save on cost but also allow for creative structural ideas, and innovative builds and designs that weren’t possible in the past.

One such technological advancement is prefab steel construction.

A solution for the creative minds (thinkers) and not for those with fixed mindset (the this-is-how-we-do-it guys)

searchng4love:

Hehehe timber hahaha timber kwakwakwa.... Ordinary bush burning na im go finish that kain house

Aconomist:
We all know how common building collapse is in Nigeria, and this occurs because of our bad habit of building multi-storey buildings with concrete. In other parts of the world they are using steel, which is a far superior building material because it is lighter (doesn't put as much strain on the foundation) cheaper than Dangote cement, and requires less maintenance.

While steel needs to be imported, healthy demand would create a market incentive for domestic production. We need to start using creativity to solve our problem in Africa.

Omoikarekimire:



Sir/madam you better think of worse of worst scenario.You are living in an environment that is crazily unstable and spiritually charged to like 500% or more.The best is to use zero maintenance on the long run.Have seen building built with concrete that the owner's children refuse to maintain and they collected rents for years.You cannot do that if u use wood or steel.The materials would force you to do maintenance within 5 years.

Aconomist:
We all know how common building collapse is in Nigeria, and this occurs because of our bad habit of building multi-storey buildings with concrete. In other parts of the world they are using steel, which is a far superior building material because it is lighter (doesn't put as much strain on the foundation) cheaper than Dangote cement, and requires less maintenance.

While steel needs to be imported, healthy demand would create a market incentive for domestic production. We need to start using creativity to solve our problem in Africa.

Lordbinsmar:

do you even know the meaning of a net zero carbon emission building? it has to do with a complete life cycle analysis of the building, from it's construction stage to it's demolition stage it is not habitable again. timber used for building leads to deforestation which is more harmful to the environment and leads to environmental pollution.

emae009:


that's like saying "why go out and hustle we can die at anytime". But everyday everybody is having one form of hustle or the other. People still die everyday.
If the timber is coated with fire resistance coating and you live with safety precautions which by nature we do anyways. What's the point of worrying.
We have fire incidents, how many times have the concrete and blocks stop the contents of the buildinga from going off in flames.
Each building materials have a certain range of heat they can withstand, once the heat is above that, they crumble. be it steel, concrete, timber, glass etc

Aconomist:
We all know how common building collapse is in Nigeria, and this occurs because of our bad habit of building multi-storey buildings with concrete. In other parts of the world they are using steel, which is a far superior building material because it is lighter (doesn't put as much strain on the foundation) cheaper than Dangote cement, and requires less maintenance.

While steel needs to be imported, healthy demand would create a market incentive for domestic production. We need to start using creativity to solve our problem in Africa.