The Potential of Gmelina as new Material for the Design and Construction of Timber Structures

This work is an extensive and systematic study on the potentials of Gmelina arborea from southwestern Nigeria as a construction material. The fundamental motivation of the study is to investigate whether timber from the large available Gmelina plantations in Nigeria can be used to mediate the need for more housing units currently facing the country due its current growing population, and to introduce the local populance to an alternative construction material that ist both sustainable, and environmentally.