The Building Collapse Prevention Guild has expressed concern that the ballooning prices of building materials may lead to an increase in the use of substandard goods, exacerbating building collapse in the country. The National President of BCPG, Sulaimon Yusuf, stated this during the BCPG Lagos State chapter sensitisation walks, themed “Walking
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With clear mandates – ensuring compliance with petroleum laws, regulations and guidelines, monitoring of operations at drilling sites, producing wells, production platforms and flowstations, crude oil export terminals, and all pipelines carrying crude oil, and natural gas, supervising operations being carried out under licences and leases, monitoring operations to ensure
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The construction industry places a premium on high-quality work. Every commercial construction project needs to make quality assurance more than just a catchphrase. Slipshod work can lead to missed deadlines, decreased safety standards, and unhappy clients. Experts in the building industry employ a vast toolkit of techniques in their never-ending
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Mr James R. Snyder, who was the last living co-founder of the Project Management Institute. Called “The Father of PMI” by many, Jim passed away peacefully on 19th February surrounded by his family. A true visionary, our esteemed founder, and leader, Mr. James R. “Jim” Snyder. Affectionately known as 'The
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With generative artificial intelligence (AI) making waves the world over, countries globally are eager to capitalize on the technology – and companies in Europe are already spending substantially on generative AI initiatives. However, according to Infosys research, British companies are lagging their counterparts in the rest of Europe. Companies in the
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Nitrogenases are considered promising candidates for the sustainable enzymatic production of ammonia and carbon compounds. Unfortunately, one bottleneck in this complex process, the supply of electrons to the enzymes, has remained a mystery until now. Now a team at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg has discovered
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Researchers at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) have developed perovskite-based semi-transparent solar cells that have a record-breaking 21.68 percent energy conversion efficiency, a press release said. These cells can be readily deployed as building windows or with tandem solar cells and have also demonstrated improved durability compared to other
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The World Bank has decried Nigeria’s energy poverty, describing it as a paradox, in spite of the country’s enormous resources . In a piece she titled: “Lighting Up Africa: Nigeria Can Show the Way,” which she penned and made available to media, exclusively, World Bank’s Managing Director for Operations, Anna Bjerde,
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Ofcom needs to work quickly to implement the Online Safety Bill as it could take years before the public starts to see its benefits, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have said. The Online Safety Bill finally passed in September after years of delay from the government. It aims to make
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A University of Oxford study has found that exported used vehicles generate far more emissions per mile than those kept in the UK. Researchers used MOT results for all 65 million used vehicles on British roads between 2005 and 2021 to compare the pollution and emissions intensity of vehicles exported to
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