Construction Professionals’ Perception on Green Building Awareness and Accruable Benefits in Construction Projects in Nigeria

The negative environmental impact of buildings to the environment has led to a clamour for improved practice. Attempts of implementation of environmental friendly principles to the entire construction projects phases is as a result of such clamour and has been linked to the evolution of evolving concept termed “green building”. The study aims at investigating the construction professionals‟ perceptions on green building awareness and accruable benefits in construction projects in Nigeria. The study objectives include assessing the level of the adoption of green building principles in construction projects and to determine the benefits accruable to its use in projects. A structured questionnaire was used to collect information from various respondents who were built environment professionals. Purposive random sampling technique was used to select one hundred-fifty (150) respondents out of which ninety-one (91) responses were used for the data analysis. The results indicate that most of the building industry professionals in Nigeria are familiar with green building principles. Building industry professionals agree on most of the rankings of the green building benefits. The study also indicates that there is no significant difference in the levels of awareness of green building practices among built environment practitioners. The findings have important implications for policy and practice. The study recommends full establishment of Green Building Council of Nigeria (GBCN) that will be responsible for awareness creation, introduction of guidelines, tools and techniques that will drive green building practices for future project. Keywords: Awareness, Construction Professionals, Green Building, Nigeria, Perception.