Civil engineering and Construction industry stakeholders have highlighted the Executive Order Five and Nine as well as inadequate curriculum as gaps hindering the nation from tapping opportunities in the sector.
“Possessing and implementing soft skills while carrying out our activities as engineers and builders is crucial towards containing and solving problems on site. The President, American Society of Civil Engineers Nigeria International Section, Rasheed Hassan said civil engineers must begin to see themselves as stewards of the natural environment and its resources.
For him also, civil engineers must increasingly transform themselves from designers and builders to project life-cycle sustainers in the future of the built environment.