The Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON) has urged housing practitioners to embrace know-how to speed up supply of high quality, inexpensive and sustainable houses within the nation.

Speaking on the 2023 Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Workshop of the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), the council Chairman, Dr. Samson Opaluwah, stated the appliance of know-how and use of such strategies would allow the nation to fulfill its housing wants, that are very essential to human survival.

Technology is revolutionising Nigeria’s housing sector, mitigating provide and demand mismatch, decreasing price of provide, building, increasing entry to capital and bettering threat predictions strategies, in addition to decreasing price of mortgage administration, property inspection and actual property transactions.

Currently, applied sciences used within the housing sector embrace 3D-printed homes, sustainable and recycled constructing supplies, building robots and automation, the Internet of Things (IoT), Building Information Modeling (BIM), Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

According to him, housing is likely one of the most important human wants, because it performs a significant function in making certain folks’s well-being, saying, “It is crucial to focus on how to leverage technology and innovation in the building industry towards improving affordable housing supply in a sustainable manner.”

He defined that know-how has immense potential to remodel the housing sector and supply options to metropolis slums, in addition to higher situations of dwelling for rural dwellings. The chairman confused that know-how needs to be leveraged to supply cheaper and inexpensive housing for Nigerians.

Opaluwah stated: “By leveraging these advancements, we can build high-quality, affordable and sustainable homes that meet the needs of our growing population.”

In latest years, we’ve witnessed a number of progressive applied sciences, that are remodeling the housing sector.

“For instance, prefabricated construction and system buildings have emerged as a credible solution, allowing developers to build high-quality homes at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional construction.”