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Why completing abandoned buildings for habitation is dangerous —Experts

Why completing abandoned buildings for habitation is dangerous —Experts

Completing abandoned uncompleted buildings for habitation carries major safety and financial implications including structural degradation and high renovation costs. To ensure the buildings are safe for use after their completion, the issue of structural degradation and others must be adequately addresed, according to construction experts.
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Natural disasters: Groups develop web-based tool on sustainable assessment

Natural disasters: Groups develop web-based tool on sustainable assessment

Worried by the devastating consequences of natural disasters and their impacts on lives, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC, (a member of the UN- Habitat-coordinated Global Network on Sustainable Housing) and the Building Research Establishment, BRE have developed a tool that would deliver sustainable guidance and provide a method of assessing such disasters whenever they occur.

Developer predicts boom for real estate sector in 2016

Developer predicts boom for real estate sector in 2016

Despite the harsh economic climate sweeping across the nation due to the fall in oil prices, devaluation of the naira, capital flight, inconsistency in government policies and unemployment, the Managing Director of Propertygate Development & Investment Plc, Mr. Adetokunbo Ajayi has predicted that 2016 will be a prosperous year for the real estate sub-sector of the economy.

BATN office complex: A confluence  of splendour, allure and luxury

BATN office complex: A confluence of splendour, allure and luxury

The new British American Tobacco Nigeria, BATN office complex located at No 2, Olumegbon Street, off Alfred Rewane Road, Ikoyi, Lagos meets all the basic considerations in a checklist for a modern-day office space. The building boasts of first-class technology that guarantees optimum conduciveness for staff and other occupants.

Lagos govt, stakeholders parley on Epe road construction project

Lagos govt, stakeholders parley on Epe road construction project

A STAKEHOLDERS’ meeting on the rehabilitation of strategic roads in Epe Local Government Area, was last week convened to address all grey areas preparatory to the flag-off of massive roads expansion and rehabilitation by the Lagos State Government in the council area.