NIOB wants stakeholders to uphold professionalism

Rising from a two-day workshop on Mandatory Continuous Professional Development Programme organized by Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), stakeholders in the real estate sector have tasked practitioners to ensure that the quality of service delivered by professionals in the building environment is top-notch.

According to a communiqué of the programme titled: “Site Management practices for builders” NIOB posited that avoidable fatalities, accidents, waste and double handling are the effects of improper layout of sites during construction, which often impact on deliverables such as time, cost and quality.

While stating that the construction methodology is a precursor to the preparation of construction programme, the association observed that some collapsed buildings are attributable to unrealistic and unprofessionally projected time frames warning both public and private sectors procuring and executing entities to request for and use Construction Programme duly prepared by registered builders for time and other resource management.’

The communiqué harped on the need for proper record keeping of different activities during and after the life span of a project, proper house- keeping planning, and putting cost into the project as routine practices.

“Builders should enhance these best practices on their projects while clients should play their roles accordingly Poor project record keeping affects future projections of projects. Additionally, poor house-keeping can lead to avoidable hazards on project sites”, it stated.

The association appealed to states to emulate Lagos state government by putting in place anti-environmental nuisance laws, which will eliminate activities of the area boys otherwise called ‘Omo onile syndrome’. ”