The organisers of the 14th Lagos Housing Fair have declared a need to direct the nation’s attention to safety as regards building construction, with focus on policy matters, building designs, material usage and applications, construction methodologies and building and planning laws.
At a press conference to herald the fair, the Chairman Lagos Housing Fair Committee, Mr Moses Ogunleye said, “The spate of collapse of buildings across the nation, particularly in major cities, is indicative of the need to refocus matters of safety in housing development. It is even more worrisome to note that a large number of buildings that collapsed in the country were residential with the attendant loss of lives.”
Mr Ogunleye also stated that “at the 14th Lagos Housing Fair, we are looking beyond building collapse, as we shall be examining issues of safe designs and the extent to which interaction within premises are promoted as well as provision for critical elements like escape exits and so on.”
The fair is slated to hold from April 28 to May 3 with the theme, “Safety in Housing Delivery.”
