The Importance of a Functional Bus Terminal in Port Harcourt

(Rivers State)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Douglas Sogbeye Henry                                                                                1-13

Building Materials Made from Available Raw Materials in Nigeria

Johnbull, Tamunobebara                                                                              14-37

Influence of Museum Architecture on Heritage Preservation in

Nigeria

Orhuah Ogheneyoma                                                                                                38-51

Reliability of Distribution Networks in Nigeria:  Ikorodu, Lagos State

as a Case Study

Oshin, Ola Austin, Onile Abiodun E, Adanikin Ariyo, Fakorede Ebenezer  52-76

RELIABILITY OF DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS IN NIGERIA: IKORODU, LAGOS STATE AS A CASE STUDY

Oshin, Ola Austin, Onile Abiodun E, Adanikin Ariyo, Fakorede Ebenezer

        Email:  austin.oshin@elizadeuniversity.edu.ng zolaolaaustin@yahoo.com,                                                                                  

ABSTRACT

Nigerians are experiencing a lot of difficulties as a result of poor Generation, Transmission and Distribution of electricity. As of 2016, the electricity energy consumption in the world from the world fact book revealed that the average power per capital (watts per person) in the United States is 1,377 Watts. In Canada, it is as high as 1,704 Watts per person and in South Africa; it is 445 Watts per person. The average power per capital in Australia is 1,112 Watts and in New Zealand it is 1,020 W per person. Whereas, the average electricity consumed in watts per person in Nigeria is just 14 Watts.  This has put Nigeria in a rank of 189 out of 219 countries estimated.  Currently, power generating capacity in Nigeria is estimated to be 6,803 megawatts, with average working capacity between 3,500 MW for over 170 million people (20.59 W/person). The power Companies in Nigeria face a lot of problems. Some of the highest priority issues being low generation of power, inadequate equipment and technical team for the clearance of faults, inadequate protection devices, transmission losses and low reliability of the distribution system. The Nigerian power problem has resulted to incessant planned, forced and unplanned outages. This has grounded many activities and has destroyed many industrial operations and processes. In addition, it has resulted to erratic and unreliable supply of electricity. It has reduced productivity and has increased unemployment and crime rates in the country. Hence, an analytical method is developed to study the dynamic- reliability of the distribution system, as well as optimizes the occurrence of faults and outages along the consumer point in each feeder in order to improve the performance of the system. A great need for fault evaluation and reliability studies of electric power system was observed. This research work analyzed the problems facing the Distribution System. Efforts were made to provide adequate solutions to the problems. The research work evaluated the occurrence and causes of faults and outages in the Distribution Network Area for a period of 8 years. In addition, it analyzed and reduced the effects of power losses along each of the feeders in the Distribution Network Area. This research work revealed the downtime, failure rate and reliability index along each of the eight feeders. It also improved the reliability and performance of the distribution system.

Keywords: Fault Evaluation, Improvement of Electric Power Distribution Network, Reliability, Occurrence of Faults, Failure Rates, Outages, Reliability, Fault Clearing, Improvement Techniques, Supply of Electricity, Productivity, Load Flow Analysis

INFLUENCE OF MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE ON HERITAGE PRESERVATION IN NIGERIA

Orhuah Ogheneyoma

Department of Architecture,

Rivers State University, Nkpolu Oroworukwo, Port –Harcourt

E-mail: yoma.orhuah@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Nigeria is a heterogeneous nation with rich culture, history and heritage however with the advent of colonization, most ethnic groups have begun to lose their identities and pristine cultures. It is of great importance that this cultural heritage of our nation is preserved and promoted in order to give future generations a sense of belonging and a connection with the Past that could help conceive an ideal future. Museums can be said to breathe life into the past and are fabulous portrayals of the distinctive times of our social history as a country. This research work will give us a wider view on how museum architecture can positively create an enabling environment where our Nigerian Heritage can be preserved also help us appreciate our culture and identities additionally giving us motivations to be directed to safeguard them as we walk into our future, projecting to us the true Nigerian spirit of unity and faith, peace and progress (Nigerian Motto).Particularly in recent times where agitation and disunity, restructuring and all bids to break the nations unity is the new order of the day. It sets forth the importance of Museum in ensuring this task both on its functional and symbolic context. This Research work concludes that despite the impact of modernization we must as individuals, professionals, designers and researchers be cognizance of our cultural roots, thus harmonizing the traditional and modern contemporary design concepts in our works as it is everyone’s task to see the preservation of our heritage.

BUILDING MATERIALS MADE FROM AVAILABLE RAW MATERIALS IN NIGERIA

Johnbull, Tamunobebara

Department of Architecture,

 Rivers State University Nkpolu Oroworukwo, Port -HarcourtEmail: johnbullloves@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The level of manufacturing of a country or continent is an indication of the level of the development of the country or continent. This paper identifies the most important factors affecting the production of building materials using locally available raw materials in developing countries. Work that has been done in this area of the building industry was looked at and the improvement provided by this work in areas of manufacturing method, raw materials and their sources are identified. Also, the locally available raw materials to manufacture the building materials were identified – fibre, waster paper, cement and water. This is followed with the analysis of test results. The products were tested to ascertain their reliability, porosity and impact the result showed that our products were very much better and cheaper than the conventional ones. Again a detailed cost analysis is included to establish the usefulness of this project. An example is included for comparison and finally comments were made and conclusions were drawn on the project. The final conclusion is that the project is feasible and very viable for the manufacture of building materials from locally sourced raw materials in Nigeria, so government and individuals of developing countries should invest in this research work to create jobs for young technologist for their respective countries.

Keywords:  Housing, Building materials, Local raw materials, Cost, Benefits.

THE IMPORTANCE OF A FUNCTIONAL BUS TERMINAL IN PORT HARCOURT (RIVERS STATE)

Douglas Sogbeye Henry                                                                                 

Department of Architecture

Rivers State University Nkpolu-Oroworukwo (RSU)

Email: henrydouglas80@gmail.com                                                                                                                            

ABSTRACT

The importance of public transit system has been growing increasingly in order to achieve smooth traffic in urban areas. One of the most used transit systems is the bus transit system. In this study, the focus will be on the role of bus transit system as public transportation. The first point is to review how to treat and to clarify the significance of bus transit system with exclusive bus-ways in public transportation planning. The second is to examine, through comparative analysis with other transit systems, the relationship between the approach of planning and operation of infrastructure and the transportation service offered. Despite the increasing popularity of luxury buses transportation in this country, little or nothing is available in regards to provision of terminal facilities to cope with the resultant explosion in the number of buses.

 Keywords: Architects, movement, transportation, terminal, bus, human, travelers.