Abstract
The purpose of the study was to determine the emerging technology skills in Building Construction
required by lecturers of Colleges of Education (Technical) in Nigeria. Two specific purposes and two
research questions guided the study. The area of the study is South Eastern Nigeria. The population
for the study was 134 which comprised of all the 20 building technology teachers in 3 colleges of
education technical and 114 building industry personnel from reputable building construction
companies in South East Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study,
whereas structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The research questions were
answered with descriptive statistical tools of Mean. While two null hypotheses were tested using t-test
at 0.05 level of significance. It was found that Building Technology is experiencing a paradigm shift
today in Nigeria, gap exist in the College of Education (Technical) curriculum. Emerging technologies
have changed the designs/concepts development, building materials, building construction methods
and building policy issues. That Building Technology teachers need training on Pop- wall/ceiling
screeding, wall tiling amongst others. Based on the findings, it was concluded that some emerging
technologies like modern design concepts, plaster of Paris wall and ceiling screeding and wall tiling
need to be integrated into building technology programme of colleges of education (technical) in order
to close lapses in the curriculum, and teachers trained on the new technologies to balance the
revolution effect. It was recommended that NCCE should integrate the identified emerging
technologies and training institutions should retrain the building technology teachers on the new
technological trends.
Keywords: Technology, emerging technology, building, colleges of education,
technical education.
Publication Date: 2018-06-09