期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2347-6710
电子版ISSN：2319-8753
出版年度：2017
卷号：6
期号：12
页码：22685
DOI：10.15680/IJIRSET.2017.0612080
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：The building construction in Nigeria mostly comprises of bungalow residential buildings which areconstructed almost entirely with manual labour. Unfortunately, on labour wage structuring issues, the labourregulations of Nigeria do not take into consideration the impacts of environmental factors such as atmospheric pressureon workers remunerations. This research was mounted to avail building construction stakeholders with someenvironmental Pressure constraints on labour wage estimating. Pilot surveys undertaken at Warri, south-south Nigeriahelped establish a hypothesis that stated that there are no significant statistical relationship existing between workmenproductivity and atmospheric pressure. As masons stay longer on sites and carry out most of the jobs, they were chosenas a sample to represent the building labour section. Simple and Multiple Correlation analysis tool was used to analysethe collected field data. The following were the highlights of the results;- (i) hourly atmospheric humidity variation hasan inverse statistical significant relationship with masons’ number of blocks laid/hour (ii) other variables that hadsignificant relationship with workmen productivity were; daily wage and biological age of mason. Based on thefindings above, the research concluded that hourly humidity variation had a significant inverse statistical relationshipwith the productivity of workmen studied. It was recommended that (i) the hourly atmospheric pressure variationsshould be studied for various geographical zones during revisions of labour wages, mark ups can be introduced tocompensate workers working under severe temperature and atmospheric pressure.
关键词：Atmospheric pressure; Productivity; Building Construction; Masons; Residential Building; Warri.
