A Building Materials Policy for Nigeria: An Economic and Technological Imperative

Abstract

The continued escalation in the cost of building materials in Nigeria underscores the economic and technological expediency of the enunciation of a building materials policy.  A building materials policy for Nigeria will be a blueprint that formulates, articulates and presents policy guidelines for the production, adaptation and diffusion of technologies on building materials.  As a palliative, perhaps, it will also achieve cost reduction in the prices of building materials.  Hence the urgency of the need for the formulation and enunciation of a building materials policy for Nigeria is, at once, an economic and technological imperative – to achieve cost reduction in the prices of building materials and to innovate and adapt appropriate technologies for building materials production.