Enugu-Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Thursday called on quantity surveyors to design a cost management strategy to reduce the costs of infrastructure provision without compromising standards.
Speaking at the opening of a two-day national training workshop organised by the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors in Enugu, Ugwuanyi said the strategy had become important because such saved costs could be channeled to tackle the challenges in other areas.
“This workshop is indeed apt and timely, especially as it is coming at this point when the need to drive economic expansion in the country through infrastructural development has become even more imperative.
“I am confident that with the calibre of experts and resource persons assembled and with the topics to be treated, participants will go away richer in knowledge and understanding of the contemporary issues and developments in the industry,’’ he said.
The governor, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Godwin Ajah, also called on the participants to address the worrisome but persistent issues of falling standards, ethical breaches and quackery in the relevant professions.
Speaking earlier, the President of the institute, Malam Murtala Aliyu, called on the state governments in the South East to patronise the services of the quantity surveyors in the zone for cost-effectiveness.
Aliyu regretted that the states had not employed the services of the professionals in their infrastructure development.
He said that the workshop was meant to address the attendant corruption in the provision of infrastructure through efficient measurement and cost management.
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The workshop is the fifth in the series organised by the institute in the various geo-political zones. (NAN)