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.
Quantity surveyors seek measures to make governments more accountable
To ensure accountability, the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS has called for the setting up of a central body of professionals to monitor and make those in government accountable. The body would be expected to develop frameworks that will make government more accountable to the populace.
Quantity surveyors inaugurate new exco
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.
We didn’t re-award contract for Abuja Centre of Excellence building — CPN
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.
Lagos unfolds plans to build world-class park in Ibeju-Lekki
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.
Lafarge introduces low-cost housing solution
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.
