INVESTIGATING STAKEHOLDERS TOWARDS UTILSATION OF ALTERNATIVE BUILDING MATERIALS IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJANIGERIA

Abstract

Identification of stakeholders is a necessity towards successful strategy for utilisation of Alternative Building Materials. The study was aimed at identification of stakeholders towards utilisation of Alternative Building Materials in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Nigeria. The relationship between the stakeholders was established. Mixed research was employed for data collection. A random sampling method was used in administering the questionnaires to a total of 115 respondents. Convenience sampling was used to interview the interviewees. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analysed the data. For questionnaire mode, relative index, mean rating, Kruskal-Wallis’s test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and Analyses of Frequencies was used. The interview was analysed using thematic content analysis using Nviovo 12. The highest-ranked stakeholders include architects, builders, research institutes, quantity surveyors, researchers, and universities while the lowest-ranked stakeholders were mortgage banks, clients, and policymakers. The interview results shown that government and government agencies, contractors and construction professionals, researchers and research institutes, academics, professional societies, real estate developers, citizens and end users, and national assembly and legislators are the stakeholders towards utilisation of Alternative Building Materials in the FCT, Abuja. The study recommends the establishment of a multi-stakeholder ABM steering committee through the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, who should convene a national ABM steering committee comprising representatives from the highest-ranked stakeholders: architects, builders, quantity surveyors, researchers, universities, SON, NBRRI, and RMRDC.