Lafarge Africa Plc, a leading innovative and sustainable building solutions company, has launched the Concrete Ideas Policy Blueprint.
This was stated at the media briefing of the sixth Lafarge Africa concrete idea titled: ‘Eradicating Slums and Regenerating Cities’ held in Lagos.
This Blueprint is an analysis of insights and ideas discussed by stakeholders in the construction, infrastructure and housing industries during the first five editions of Concrete Ideas, Lafarge’s thought-leadership series, in shaping the built sector in Nigeria, and raising the number of urban dwellers currently living in the slums.
The Policy Blueprint was written by Dr. Ayo Teriba, leading Nigerian economist and CEO of Economic Associates. The Concrete Ideas leadership series was created by the leading building solutions company to serve as a veritable platform for deliberation on issues, policies, and developments shaping Nigeria’s construction, infrastructure, and housing sectors.
Speaking at the launch of the blueprint in Lagos recently, Khaled El Dokani, Country CEO, Lafarge Africa Plc, said: “We are taking a more direct approach to increasing investment in infrastructure and housing by working with the government, professional associations, public policy experts and the broader private sector to find enabling policy solutions.
“We are grateful to all the experts and industry leaders who have actively participated and led critical policy deliberations during the last five editions of Concrete Ideas. With their inputs, we have been able to create this succinct and coherent Policy Blueprint. I hope that governments at all levels and the industry find this very useful.”
Speaking further, Dokani said: “We know that we owe a great deal to the people who have been part of these events since the beginning – the experts, public officials, professional associations and the broader private sector. Today and in line with our purpose of building progress for people and the planet, we are putting sustainability at the forefront of housing and infrastructure development, because we want to make sure that all Nigerians have access to this important information that will shape, set standards and accelerate positive change toward sustainable construction practices in the country”.
The head of Corporate Communications, Lafarge Africa Plc, Ginikanwa Frank-Durugbor said: “with each edition of concrete ideas, it is evident that conversation on critical and topical issues across the construction value chain require public-private partnerships and the voice and contributions of the people to solve them.”
