Slide one: Introduction
Slide one: Introduction
My name is Ernest Ekwunife from the University of Salford, and I am pleased to present my doctoral research titled Construction Safety as a Pathway to Sustainability: Evaluating the Nigerian Building Code in Lagos State.
This study explores construction safety as a pathway to broader sustainability outcomes within the Nigerian Building Code framework, with sustainability understood across environmental, economic and social dimensions.
Today, I will briefly discuss the motivation for the study, the research approach, some preliminary findings, and the implications for policy and practice.
Slide two: Why This Study Matters (sixty seconds)
Slide two: Why This Study Matters (sixty seconds)
The motivation for this research stems from the persistent safety challenges within the Nigerian construction industry.
Lagos State continues to experience incidents of building collapse, workplace accidents, and regulatory compliance challenges despite the existence of the Nigerian Building Code.
At the same time, sustainability has become a major global priority within construction. However, discussions on sustainability often focus on environmental and economic issues while paying limited attention to safety. This study argues that sustainability cannot realistically be achieved where construction safety culture remains weak.
In simple terms, if workers are unsafe, projects experience failures, and buildings do not perform as intended, then genuine sustainability becomes difficult to achieve.