The Lagos State Government has revealed plans to tackle housing deficit in the state through the use of innovative building technology.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Housing, Mr Moruf Akinderu-Fatai, stated that the technology and eco-friendly designs used at Peridot Parkland Estate, Idale, Badagry, would be replicated in the construction of multi-level structures in the urban parts of the state to speedily reduce the challenges of housing deficit in those areas.
Akinderu-Fatai during a tour of the estate’s facilities said the estate which comprised 252 two-bedroom bungalows would be the state’s first affordable green housing development and would be completed before the end of first quarter.
He explained that the eco-friendly housing scheme was built by the ministry through a joint venture arrangement with Echostone Nigeria.
According to him, it has been designed to utilise less energy for cooling and heating, thereby ensuring sustainability of the environment.
The commissioner further disclosed that apart from the benefits to the environment through the optimisation of energy consumption, the project had introduced an innovative technology to speed up housing delivery using less energy and generating minimal waste from sites activities.
He said one of the special features of the eco-friendly estate was that it would come with a garden and each house of four units of two-bedroom flats would have two trees.
He said, “The estate is at 90 per cent completion stage within less than a year of commencement and will soon be delivered to the public before the end of the first quarter of 2020.
“With this development, the collaboration with Echostone has shown clearly that the Lagos State Government will speedily meet up with its targets in housing delivery thereby increasing the housing stock in the state.”
He said the state government planned to build decent and affordable structures, adding that with the technology taking less than three weeks to build four two-bedroom flats, the state was on its way to combating housing deficit.
The commissioner said the ministry and Echostone had agreed to move into Ayobo in the Ipaja area of the state to construct a single storey-building of 300 units with the same technology and to construct 750 units in Imota, Ikorodu.
According to the Director of Echostone Nigeria, Mr Sammy Adigun, the technology deployed in the building of the green and eco-friendly estate uses concrete which has a greater thermal and sound insulation, and requiring less maintenance.
Source: Punch
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