An Evaluation of the Impact of Temperature on the Productivity of Masons in Residential Building Construction in Warri Area of the Niger Delta in Nigeria

  Dr. Mogbo Onyebuchi,  Arome Akubo,  Michael Tiza

The impact of environmental factors such as temperature is not considered a serious factor in the constitution of wages for laborers in the construction Industry in Nigeria. The statistical studies in Warri, south- south geopolitical zone of Nigeria shows that there is significantly no existing relationship between the productivity skilled laborers such as masons, carpenters, plumbers electricians etc. However, because masons have the highest duration on construction sites most of times, and have a greater percentage of work on site, they were chosen for the purpose of this study. Multiple and simple Correlation analysis tool was used to analyse the collected field data.This study is a follow up of a previously conducted research on atmospheric pressure by the same authors.An article published in December, 2017 by International Journal of Innovative Research in Science Engineering and Technology (IJIRSET). The study proves that Productivity of workmen on Hourly basis, is affected statistically by hourly temperature , the efficiency of workmen on daily basis is meaningfully affected by the years of training of the masons,day-to-day yield of workmen is considerably affected by the biological age of masons, their productiviy is not considerably affected by temperature variance, and this could be explained by adaptation of masons to temperature variations, daily wage of masons significantly affects their productivity also working experience affects the daily productivity of workmen with younger ones having more productivity as compared to the older ones and competitive atmosphere has a great impact on the productivity ofworkmen on construction sites.

Keywords- Impact, Temperature, Productivity,Masons, Residential Building,Construction, Warri, Niger Delta, Nigeria.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1801049
Page Number(s) - 296-301
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 1 | January 2018
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Dr. Mogbo Onyebuchi,  Arome Akubo,  Michael Tiza,   "An Evaluation of the Impact of Temperature on the Productivity of Masons in Residential Building Construction in Warri Area of the Niger Delta in Nigeria", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 1, pp.296-301, January 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1801049.pdf