Assessment of Architectural Student Perception on Energy Efficiency in Architectural Designs in Selected Tertiary Institution in Lagos Mega-city, Nigeria
Keywords:
Architectural students, Architectural designs, Energy efficiency, Perception assessment, Tertiary institution.Abstract
This study assessed the architectural students' perceptions of energy efficiency in
architectural designs in selected tertiary institutions in Lagos Mega-city. Thelevel of
awareness of architectural students incorporating energy efficiency into
architectural designs through active design strategies than passive design strategies
was also assessed and their knowledge on how energy sustainability could be
achieved inarchitectural design was investigated. The researchcontributed to the
development of strategies for improving students' awareness and engagement in
sustainable building practices. A cross-sectional survey approach was adopted in
this study, a quantitative data was randomly collected from108 architectural
students in selected tertiary institutionsand data analysed using Statistical Package
for Socio-Sciences (SPSS).The study findings showed that 30.5% of respondents are
aware while 69.5% are not aware of incorporating energy efficiency into
architectural design.Also 69.4% are have the knowledge of the need to incorporate
energy sustainability into architectural design while 14.8% are not knowledgeable
and 14.8% were not sure.The study recommended that student awareness should
be intensified and promoted both in their training and in the curriculum of
architectural designs and sustainable building practices.
