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.