THE TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF BUILDING SERVICES PROFESSIONALS IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
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2014-01
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Kukoyi, P.O.
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Abstract
Challenges’ currently facing the construction industry is skill mismatch. Shortage of professionals in the
building services subsector have led to the influx of inadequately trained persons. One of the major problems the society is facing today is the issue of homes, schools and offices having a poor indoor environmental quality. This leads to ill-health, learning difficulties and poor productivity often reported by occupants. Human beings spend about 70-80% of their time indoors this implies the need for a healthy indoor
environment. This study aims to understand the training provisions of building services professionals in
Nigeria. Mixed method research approach will be employed. The case study will in part, comparatively
evaluate the Nigerian and UK building services curricula by collecting information on the curricula in
use, semi-structured interviews with professionals to gain an understanding based on their experience
and questionnaires to identify relationships and trends in training provisions. A framework for educating
and training of building services professionals will be proposed to improve the performance and efficiency of the built environment. The study is part of an ongoing PhD programme aimed at finding solutions to
the industry’s Building services problems in Nigeria and presented at this stage in theory prior to data
collection.
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Conference paper
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Building services, Curriculum, Education, Professionals, Training
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Kukoyi, P.O. (2014). The training and education of Building services professionals in the Nigerian construction industry. In S. Ogunlana, G. Idoro, M. Dada, A. Iweka,V. Ilechukwu &W. Alade (Eds), Proceedings of the CIBW107 2014 International conference, Lagos Nigeria. pp 680-685, 28th -30th January.