What do you believe is the single most important factor driving up the cost of living in Nigeria?

Speaking at the 4th edition of Big 5 Construct Nigeria, hosted by DMG in Lagos recently, a project manager at ENCON Sharon Engineering Services, Enianu Eniafe, called on professionals to address the existing knowledge gap within the industry.

He said, “In our adoption of technology, even with the workforce, we are 75 per cent below the scale, meaning Nigeria is far behind in adopting recent technologies. Building Information Modelling has been in existence since 2014 or before that, but up until now, we have not yet adopted it in Nigeria.

“And that has caused a lot of clashes during construction. A lot of rework and more spending. If we can just harness our resources (human and technology), we will be able to scale much higher at a faster rate than other countries can imagine.”

Similarly, the Executive Secretary of the Association of Housing Corporation of Nigeria, Toye Eniola, said technology was revolutionising the building sector of other climes but Nigeria was still adopting manual methods, which was inhibiting the growth of the sector.

He said, “The issues in the construction sector can be regulated by technology but the government is not ready to make it work because of the corruption plaguing the sector and has become the bane of the problem.”

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