Implication of Fire Outbreak for Environmental Friendly Design and Construction of domestic Building in Nigeria

Abstract

Achieving suitable environment-friendly design and construction of domestic buildings, which constitutes the majority of building type in Nigeria, implies freedom from life-threatening hazard is such as fires. The study was aimed at establishing the contribution of domestic fires to the annually tally of all types of fires. Official summaries of statistics of fire outbreaks in Nigeria constituted the research data. It was concluded that fire outbreaks in domestic buildings determined the trends in total fire outbreaks in Nigeria over the study period, the level of influence of domestic fires on total fires ranging between 90% and 99%. Significant reduction in numbers of domestic fires would reduce total fire outbreaks in the country. It was recommended that in the siting of Fire Stations special consideration should be given to areas containing large concentration of domestic buildings with the attendant high risk of fire.