Quantity surveyors rounded off their 26th biennial conference in Lagos weekend, with the inauguration of Mrs Mercy Torkwase Iyortyer as the first female president of their professional body -the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS. She will, for the next two years, preside over the new executive council of the Institute which has a former Lagos State Chairman of the Institute, Mr. Obafemi Onashile as Deputy President.

The Computer Professionals’ (Registration Council of Nigeria) CPN, has debunked rumours that the contract for its Abuja Centre of Excellence Building has been re-awarded to a new contractor.

The Lagos State Government will next year, commence work on the construction of a Metropolitan Park on a 5-hectares parcel of land at Ayeteju in Ibeju-Lekki, along the Lekki-Ajah expressway.

A new approach capable of delivering houses within 17 days and at reduced costs, has been unveiled by Messrs Lafarge Holcin, manufacturers of Elephant Cement products. The new approach was introduced by the company to offer a wide range of affordable housing solutions to prospective home owners across Nigeria with a view to bridging the housing gap currently put at a staggering 17 million units.

The American University of Nigeria, AUN, Yola boasts of its fair share of architectural splendour given the many magnificent buildings that dot its expansive space.

Bothered by the rising cases of building collapse across Lagos State, particularly the Lagos Island axis, members of the Building Collapse and Prevention Guild (BCPG), a voluntary organisation made of built environment professionals with the mandate to prevent buildings from collapsing, has decided to seek the collaboration of Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, in its quest to tackle the menace.

WORRIED by the poor state of the Ajase-Ipo/ Offa Road in the southern part of Kwara State, the legislators representing the area in the State House of Assembly, have dragged the Attorney-General of the country and the contractor handling the reconstruction of the road to the Federal High Court for allegedly abandoning the construction/rehabilitation of the road.

LAGOS, the acclaimed “Centre of Excellence” will be agog this week as the nation’s construction cost experts storm the city for the 26th Biennial Conference and General Meeting of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS.

OBAFEMI Onashile is a former Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS. He has also held the positions of Publicity Secretary of the chapter, Secretary, International Affairs of the NIQS and is currently the Vice President, (West Africa) Association of Africa Quantity Surveyors, AAQS. Onashile who is also […]

DUBAI’s top property developer, Messrs Emaar Properties is partnering with Wrothams Windsor, a Lagos-based real estate development firm, to showcase a private collection of properties hand picked for Nigerian clients.

No fewer than 345 industries in Lagos State have joined the fight against environmental pollution. The companies, 207 manufacturing and 138 facilities have begun to enhance their production facilities to mitigate environmental degradation in the state.

As the world counts down to the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris at the end of this month, the 197 parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer have agreed on a “Dubai Pathway” for controlling climate-change-inducing hydrofluorocarbons, HFCs.

For many Lagos residents, the name Dolphin Estate Ikoyi rings a bell as one of the abodes for the affluent in Nigeria’s “Centre of Excellence”. But for those who have visited the estate, the picture is that of two different worlds – luxury and squalor.

Against the backdrop of the widening housing deficit in the country resulting from unfriendly policies, the need for governments at the federal and state level to see the issue of housing as a matter of concern and priority has been stressed.

The draft of the new Land Use Planning Report, LUPAR will be made ready in time for the next national conference and annual general meeting, AGM of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, NITP slated for October in Ilorin, Kwara State.