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The Lagos Habitat 2001 project main objectives are :

-Tomodernize extant regulations towards the transformation of Lagos into Africa’s model mega city;-

To halt the increasing frequency of building collapse in Lagos;

-To establish a building control system to minimize the incidence of various building defects arising from bad design, inferior materials and construction leading to fire and health hazards;

-To create processes and institutions for effective enforcement of the regulations;

-To eradicate uncontrolled development due to fast-paced growth in the state;

-The reduction of slums towards attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and saving the unnecessary cost of relocating slum dwellers;

-To mitigate security threats posed by several abandoned buildings in the state;

-To address the prevalent loss of skills amongst building professionals due to lack of statutory certification and continuous education;

-To enforce structured accreditation procedures for workmen;

-To formulate a sustainable physical planning and urban development policy for Lagos State;

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” I believe that a lot of the fishing communities do have to re-settled to land based housing schemes because we can design modern housing schemes that borrow a lot of ideas from their traditional architecture which could end up serving them better.

Most of the fishing communities of West Africa tend to live in houses built on stilts or poles embedded in the river or sea-bed because of constantly changing daily or seasonal level of the river and sea water around them.

By incorporating rain collection devices on the roof as well as portable solar distillation equipment will alleviated a lot of problems the inhabitants have with access to clean drinking water.

The intended source of power supply will be from Photovoltaic and wind generated power.”

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