Group Wants Good Management In Construction Industry

General Secretary, Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), Mr Fadil Elegbede, says good management practices could add value to the construction industry.

Elegbede told newsmen in Lagos  that it was erroneous to think that engineering and construction shared nothing with the social and management sciences.

He said that Nigerians were yet to appreciate the importance of management and social sciences to the construction sector.

“Engineering is intimately linked to the social lives of a people.

“And the construction sector has as much to add to the culture and social wellbeing of a people, “ he said.

He said that application of effective management principles were very important for the growth and development of construction industry.

Elegbede said that researches in the management and social sciences had influenced many developments in engineering disciplines.

“The foreign expatriates are always on one research or the other at all times, discovering and embracing new technologies in the engineering, social and management sciences.

“They are ready to learn new ways of getting the job done on sites.

“But in Nigeria, we know the right things, but fail to do them because we are not diversifying in the principles we adopt.

“Nigerian construction professionals do not easily want to adapt to changes. We are still far behind in the application of management principles on our sites, “ he said.

He said that Nigeria had enough of resources that construction professionals and personnel required to compete with developed societies.

According to him, indigenous construction professionals will be able to compete with their international counterparts if they applied time tested management principles on their sites.