Quantity Surveyors move into new purpose-built head office

The Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) has moved into its new, purpose-built head office, located in the Mabushi District of the nation’s capital city, Abuja.

Welcoming members of the press to the new building recently, President of the Institute, QS Mohammed Abba Tor, FNIQS, said, “This is a functional, well-designed, purpose-built office complex, which befits the status of the NIQS as a professional body that has been in existence for over 50 years.”

He added that the edifice “is one of the fundamental strategies of the NIQS in ensuring that the next 50 years is anchored on a solid foundation which signals our commitment to our esteemed members and the wider society.”

The NIQS President also used the occasion to urge the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) “to speed up the construction of the link road along NIQS Crescent, in order to ease accessibility to stimulate social and economic activities in the area.”

Acknowledging the contribution made by his immediate predecessor in office, QS Obafemi O. Onashile, FNIQS, who is currently the President of African Association of Quantity Surveyors, as well as all other past leaders of the Institute towards actualising the dream of a befitting head office, QS Abba Tor said, “The work they did, and which the current National Executive Council continued tirelessly and diligently in ensuring that all the outstanding items were concluded, is the reason we are able to occupy our own head office today.”

He also thanked the secretariat staff of the Institute for independently developing a relocation plan and following it through to the very end.