NIQS SEEKS ROLE IN ENGINEERING PROJECTS

    

After considering government’s current huge budgetary allocations in the real estate subsector, the Nigerian institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) has advocated significant role in engineering infrastructures projects in the country. The Nigerian cost experts said their involvement in these projects would curb corrupt tendencies and sharp practices, ensure financial probity accountability, value for money, and minimize mass wastages of economic resources usually associated with infrastructure provision. It was at a two-day work shop on engineering infrastructure provision. It was at a two-day work shop on engineering infrastructure projects an event held recently at the Universal Hotel Independence Layout, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria. With a theme ‘Measurement and Cost Management of Engineering Infrastructure Projects’, the institute said the event was for members to build subduced capacities, imbibe new competencies and develop contemporary skills to strategically takeover, sustain leadership and occupy vantage positions as cost experts. According to NIQS, engineering infrastructure projects were critical to economic development and often an index measuring a nation’s global competitiveness, thus making the active participation of quality surveyor imperative for their effective cost management.