Roles and Responsibilities of Architect in Construction

Architects in construction plays an important role and they are responsible for visual appearance of the buildings and structures before final structural design.

Architect is a person appointed by the client, who develops a facility as per the design concept and the requirements specified by the client. The architects develop design that are more creative in aesthetics.

The architect makes use of vision and creative ideas to satisfy the client. But the design evolved by the architects have to satisfy with the building laws and the regulations of the state.

Regulatory Bodies In the Construction Industry In Nigeria

  

·         The construction or building industry in Nigeria is a complex and highly competitive one with varying professionals in different aspects. These professionals ensure the successful execution of its numerous activities.

·         However, just like in every sector of the economy of a country, there are regulatory bodies that are saddled with the responsibility of ensuring the effective control; coordination; organizing; directing; resource management and production of building; and other constructional activities in Nigeria.

·         This article lists the various institutions, their regulatory bodies and their functions.

Construction practices in a developing country like Nigeria differ significantly in important aspects from practices in industrialized or developed countries. In Nigeria, the greatest challenge facing professionals in the field is that the practice of construction is not uniform. It varies with the client, size or complexity of the project from the perspective of the owners.

Albeit, there are instituted agencies in the construction industry in Nigeria that regulate building practices in the country. The regulatory bodies are set up to regulate and ensure that professionals within the construction industry operate in accordance with the law establishing them.

The list of the various institutions and their regulatory body is as followings:

How to make sure your building project does not become a non achievable project!!

We are familiar with public sector projects becoming abandoned white elephant projects….but this can be the fate of smaller private building projects.

The two major cost models relative to the project design are; Cost to design (CTD) and Design to Cost (DTC). Cost to design simply means putting up a design first and then estimating the total construction cost from the design usually without formally tying it to any budget while Design to cost entails stating your budget for the project first, then ensuring that the project is designed to be completed within that budget.

For instance using the recommended DTC model, a project owner can approach a designer/contractor with let say four Million Naira to construct a simple bungalow and achieve his/her desires within it in the following simple steps;

Modern Construction Techniques can bridge Housing Gap

Biodun Odeleye

A professor of Civil Engineering, Danladi Slim Matawal has advocated the adoption of technologies and materials that reflect the concepts of ’Modern Methods of Construction  (MMC), which encapsulates the cost reduction in construction to bridge the housing gaps in Nigeria.

According to him, this could be achieved by taking advantage of the speed of construction and sustainable materials in construction process. Matawal’s position was contained in a paper titled: “Reducing Housing Cost Through Modern Techniques and Construction Materials”, and delivered at the 5th NIESV National Housing Summit, 2016 with Theme ‘’10,000 Housing Units in Each State of the Federation: Issues and prospects’,’ held at Port Harcourt, River State.
 
According to him, it is important that the Nigerian construction industry shift from the entirety of traditional building to embracing modern ways of building which is focused on building more in lesser time more efficiently if we want to improve the existing housing stock in Nigeria.

ELECTRICITY AUDIT FOR HOMES AND WORK PLACE - A SAFETY MEASURE

To get the best out of your electricity supply in your home or workplace, these processes must be inspected, analyzed and surveyed to reaffirm that your electrical system is still in consonance with necessary requirements and best practices. This process of reaffirmation is what is technically called Electrical Audit (EA) or Electrical System Audit (ESA).

What this helps you do is detect and help you carry out predictive maintenance, which will help determine the actual state of your electrical system.
Unfortunately a lot of people ignore or are altogether unaware of the importance of this process, this process is cery important.

WHAT CAUSES FOUNDATIONS AND SLABS TO SINK? SPOTTING AND REPAIRS OF SINKING FOUNDATION

SINKING FOUNDATION 

Foundation settlement and movement can be caused by building on expansive clay, compressible or improperly compacted fill soils, or improper maintenance around foundations.

Find out the warning signs of foundation/slab failure.

Whatever the cause, settlement can destroy the value of structures and even render them unsafe.

In any case, water is the basic culprit in the vast majority of expansive soil problems. Specific constituents of certain soils tend to swell or shrink with variations in moisture. The extent of this movement varies from soil to soil.

Quantity Surveyors Back FG on Loan For Infrastructure Projects

President, Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, Mrs. Mercy Iyortyer

With building and construction industry being one of the hardest-hit by the recession, quantity surveyors said the move by the federal government to secure loan for infrastructure projects would help revive the construction industry.

The President, Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, Mrs. Mercy Iyortyer who spoke at ajob fair organised by the institute in Abuja, urged the government to engage professionals as part of prudent management of projects.