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Contents
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the study
1.2 STATEMENT OF RESEARCH PROBLEM
1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.4 AIM OF THE STUDY
1.5 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.6 HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY
1.7 Significance of the study
1.8 Scope and limitation of the study
1.9 Definition of terms
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Environmental Material Assessment
2.2.1 Three Phases of Building Materials
2.2.1.1 Pre-Building Phase
2.2.1.2 Building Phase
2.2.2 Threebasic steps of product selection
2.2.2.1 Research
2.2.2.2 Evaluation
2.2.2.3 Selectio
2.3 Timber as a Building Material
2.3.1 Structural Properties of Timber
2.3.1.1 Strength and Stiffness
2.3.1.2 Increasing Bendability
2.3.1.3 Moisture Content and Density
2.4 Criteria for Building Materials Selection
2.4.1 ResourceEfficiency
2.4.2 IndoorAir Quality (IAQ)
2.4.4 WaterConservation
2.4.5 Affordability
2.4.6 Non-polluting
2.4.7 Minimum wastes
2.5 Construction Materials and Components
2.6 Materials Selection
2.7 Factors to Be Considered During Material selection
2.8 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Principles
2.9 Energy
3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN
3.3 RESEARCH ASSUMPTION
3.4 POPULATION OF THE STUDY
3.5 SAMPLE SIZE
3.6 SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
3.7 DATA COLLECTION METHOD
3.8 DATA COLLECTION INSTRUMENT
3.9 STATISTICAL TOOLS
3.10 ADMINISTRATION OF QUESTIONNAIRE
REFERENCES
CHAPTER ONE
- Quote paper
- Blessing Adegoke (Author), 2009, Assessment of criteria for selection of timber as building material for building construction projects within Lagos Metropolis, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/188780
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