The Minister charged with the responsibility for housing and urban development matters shall appoint in consultation with relevant professional bodies members of the Committee. The.
Nigeria Building Code Free Public FullProject: CONFERENCE PAPERS Authors: Moses Madubueze Okonkwo Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Download full-text PDF Read full-text Download full-text PDF Read full-text Download citation Copy link Link copied Read full-text Download citation Copy link Link copied Discover the worlds research 20 million members 135 million publications 700k research projects Join for free Public Full-text 1 Content uploaded by Moses Madubueze Okonkwo Author content All content in this area was uploaded by Moses Madubueze Okonkwo on Jul 07, 2020 Content may be subject to copyright.Being a Paper presented at a 3-Day National ConferenceTraining Workshop on The Anatomy of the National Building Code; Sustainable Building, Construction and Built Environment; and the Millennium Development Goals: The Journey So Far, organized by The Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Enugu State University of Science and Technology and The Centre for Academic and Professional Excellence; at Faculty of Environmental Sciences Auditorium, ESUT Permanent Site, Ebano City, between 27-29 June, 2007.
Nigeria Building Code Professional Bodies MembersIntroduction: 1.1. The Making of the Code: In 1987, the Defunct National Council of Works and Housing directed that a National Building Code be evolved for Nigeria. All the stakeholders in the Building Industry were duly contacted for input.There after the defunct Federal Ministry of Works and Housing organized a N ational workshop at ASCON, Badagry Lagos State in 1989. To further fine tune the Draft N ational Building Code, another wor kshop was held at the Gatewa y Hotel, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State in 1990. The product of the Ijebu-Ode Code was approved by the then National Council on Housing in 1991. Unfortunately this docu ment was not ratified by the then Federal Executive Council for use in the Country. The 1991 approved document was re -presented to the 2 nd Nation al Council on Housing and Urban Development held in Port-Harcourt, November, 2005 and the Council directed that the document be widely circulated to all stakeholders for input to facilitate the production of an acceptable National Building Code. Consecutively, the Draft document underwent some restructuring from three parts to four parts as follows: i. Part I changes from Administration and Environment to Administration; ii. Part II forms Classifications and Requirements, subdivided into two major divisions: Section 4 and 5 then sections 6-12 respectively. The second division charges the major stakeholders in the working tools from Sections 4 and 5. Part III forms the Enforcement part of the Codes. The entire Building Process is divided into four convenient stages and developed under two sub-headings: a. This approach was intended not on ly to make the enforcement functional but also to enable its adaptability to the Nigerian situation to be more efficient. Pat IV is made up of a separate part namely, Schedules, where a ll supportive documents, data, tables, information and all sorts of relevant and approved application forms to Part I, II, and III can be found. The need to evolve a National Building Code arose from the following existing conditions of our cities and environment: a. Incessant collapse of bui ldings, fire infernos, built environment abuse and other disasters; c. In view of the above, the National Council on Housing and Urban Development dee med it necessary and initiated the process of evolving a National Building Code to put a stop to the ugly trends in the Building Industry. The Main Objectives of the Code: It was the hope of the National Council on Housing and Urban Development that the National Building Code would open a new vista in the Building Industry and eliminate or reduce to the bare minimum the incidents of collapsed building syndrome in Nigeria; promote safety and qualitative housing for every Nigerian. Implementation Framework of the Code: To achieve these laudable objectives, every tier of government (federal, state and local) must imbibe the spirit and intent of this Code. To this end, State governments are implored to integrate the provisions of this Code into their local laws particularly those relating to D esign, Construction and Maintenance (Post Construction) and efficiently monitor the implementation of the Code. It is the humble opinion of the author of this paper that the present National Conference finds its reason of being pursuant of the plea made by the then Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko at the presentation of. They should encourage their members to religiously observe the provisions of this Code by organizing various seminars to educate their members on the implications of this Code. You should self-regulate y ourselves to prevent incessant governmental interventions in the practice of your professions. I must counsel various professional bodies to estab lish a monitoring unit to ensure effective compliance with the Code and punish erring members within the confines of the ethics of the professions in order to compliment the efforts of the Building Code Enforcement Officers (Mimiko, 2006). The Establishment of the National Building Code Advisory Committee (BCAC): A Bu ilding Code Advisory Committee (BCAC) was esta blished, and shall be answerable administratively and operationa lly to the Minister. Nigeria Building Code Registration Experience InThe Committee m embers shall cons ist of duly registered practitioners of not less than ten years post-registration experience in the following professions: - Architecture; - Building; - Engineering; - Urban and Regional Planning; - Estate Surveying and Valuation; - Quantity Surveying; - Land Surveying. And representatives of: - Federal Ministry of Environment; - Federal Ministry of Health; - Federal Fire Service; - Standards Organisation of Nigeria; - Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development; - Relevant Non-Governmental Organization; - Six state representatives (relevant to the building industry) each from six geopolitical zones of the country whose tenure shall be rotational. The Minister charged with the responsibility for housing and urban development matters shall appoint in consultation with relevant professional bodies members of the Committee.
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