ANAP urges govt to adopt green house policy
The President, Association of Nigerian Architectural Professionals, Dr. Olusegun Idowu, has urged the federal and state governments as well as building institutions and individuals to adopt green house strategy to reduce the housing deficit in the country.
He stated that this would protect and preserve the environment and make it more conducive for habitation for human beings and other creatures.
He spoke during ANAP’s summit in Ilorin on Saturday.
Idowu said, “I will support 100 per cent the adoption of green architecture in Federal Government housing schemes and indeed, all projects that have to do with building.
“Members of the profession should support that 100 per cent too; in fact, the profession is not just to support, it should encourage and advocate that green architecture should be the in thing.”
He stated that like in some other professions, there is the challenge of quackery in the architectural profession in the country.
According to him, many people have not seen their practice as a way of engendering professionalism; some view it as a way of grabbing as much as they can.
He also said that architects should not be held responsible for building collapse in the country.
He stated that the structural stability of a building is the responsibility of the structural engineer.
“However, there is also what we call architectural failure in which case a building or structure will be standing but not functioning the way it should function. It may be standing offensively to the eye. Such building may eventually lead to structural failure and affect the wall.
“If some architectural failures are not addressed, they can lead progressively to building collapse,” Idowu said
