Purpose

The high consumption of energy by buildings may have enhanced land degradation, flooding, air pollution and many other hazardous environmental issues. However, green practices in buildings have been proved as one of the successful technologies to mitigate these issues. Past studies have shown lax green practices in Nigerian buildings. Concerning public hospital buildings, this is yet to be explored. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the barriers to green practices and proffer possible policy solutions to promote hospital green buildings.

Design/methodology/approach

In attaining these objectives, the view of hospital building contractors, design team, hospital management and policymakers in the relevant ministries/agencies was engaged via virtual interviews. The collated data were analysed and presented in the thematic pattern.

Findings

Findings show that green building construction is extremely low in Nigeria, but the worst hit is the health-care buildings across the states. Government/policy-related, organisational/leadership-related, financial-related, technical-related, design team-related and stakeholders’ behaviour-related barriers emerged as the main six themes of barriers affecting public hospital green buildings implementation initiatives. Findings show that proffering possible policies to addressing these barriers may improve public hospital green construction across the states.

Research limitations/implications

This paper is limited to barriers to green buildings implementation in public hospitals in Nigeria, and data collection was through virtual interviews but does not affect the strength of the findings. Thus, this paper suggests that the sub-themes and variables/items that emerged from the collated data as presented in Figure 1 can be further developed quantitatively via questionnaire survey to validate and improve the reliability of results from this paper.

Practical implications

As part of this study’s implications, suggestions from this paper will stir up policymakers’ decisions, to be tailored towards achieving green buildings implementation initiatives in Nigerian public hospitals.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is probably the first that attempted to investigate the barriers to green buildings implementation in public hospitals in Nigeria.

中文翻译：

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尼日利亚公立医院绿色建筑实施举措中的障碍

目的

建筑物的高能耗可能加剧土地退化、洪水、空气污染和许多其他有害的环境问题。然而，建筑中的绿色实践已被证明是缓解这些问题的成功技术之一。过去的研究表明，尼日利亚建筑的绿色实践松懈。关于公立医院建筑，这还有待探索。因此，本文旨在调查绿色实践的障碍，并为促进医院绿色建筑提供可能的政策解决方案。

设计/方法/方法

在实现这些目标的过程中，医院建筑承包商、设计团队、医院管理层和相关部委/机构的政策制定者通过虚拟访谈获得了意见。对整理的数据进行了分析，并以主题模式呈现。

发现

调查结果表明，尼日利亚的绿色建筑建设率极低，但受灾最严重的是各州的医疗保健建筑。政府/政策相关、组织/领导相关、财务相关、技术相关、设计团队相关和利益相关者行为相关障碍成为影响公立医院绿色建筑实施举措的主要六大障碍。研究结果表明，为解决这些障碍提供可能的政策可能会改善各州的公立医院绿色建设。

研究限制/影响

本文仅限于尼日利亚公立医院实施绿色建筑的障碍，数据收集是通过虚拟访谈进行的，但不影响调查结果的强度。因此，本文建议从图 1 所示的整理数据中出现的子主题和变量/项目可以通过问卷调查进一步定量开发，以验证和提高本文结果的可靠性。

实际影响

作为本研究意义的一部分，本文的建议将激发政策制定者的决策，以针对在尼日利亚公立医院实现绿色建筑实施计划而量身定制。

原创性/价值

据作者所知，本文可能是第一篇尝试调查尼日利亚公立医院实施绿色建筑的障碍的论文。