https://www.bizcommunity.com/157/493.html Nigeria Building Materials news 15 Materials & Equipment news - Nigeria https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/157/493.html en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:32:07 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/494/234167.html In June 2022, a fire outbreak at a hospital construction site in Istanbul, Turkey, destroyed most of the newly installed medical and security devices, and injured three people. A few days later, firefighters from West Fargo in North Dakota attended a flaming construction site behind the town's Costco. And a month after that, a blaze broke out at a railway development in Stuttgart, Germany. 1-234167 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:17:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Nigeria https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/492/234124.html Drones are already shaping the face of our cities - used for building planning, heritage, construction and safety enhancement. But, as studies by the UK's Department of Transport have found, swathes of the public have a limited understanding of how drones might be practically applied. 1-234124 Fri, 02 Dec 2022 10:03:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Nigeria https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/209/360/232167.html German-led engineering firm CPS is building the world's tallest green building - a 28-storey apartment tower designed in hybrid timber technology. Named Burj Zanzibar, the high-rise is designed to stand 96 metres tall and would be Africa's first sustainable high-rise. 1-232167 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Nigeria https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/493/231501.html Romco Metals, which recycles scrap aluminium in Nigeria and Ghana, is planning to expand output by more than five times to 100,000 tonnes a year, its CEO said, and is working on a project to create green hydrogen to power its furnaces. 1-231501 Wed, 14 Sep 2022 07:56:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Nigeria https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/231437.html The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved Saint-Gobain's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets as consistent with the organisation's new net-zero standard and the Paris Climate Agreement. Committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, Saint-Gobain is the first company in its sector worldwide to receive this approval since the introduction of the new standard at the end of last year. 1-231437 Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Nigeria https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/157/493/229889.html Nigeria has pumped more than $8bn into Ajaokuta Steel Company, a project which began more than 40 years ago but has yet to produce one tonne of steel. 1-229889 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:28:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Nigeria https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/494/225564.html 3D printed concrete may lead to a shift in architecture and construction. Because it can be used to produce new shapes and forms that current technologies struggle with, it may change the centuries-old processes and procedures that are still used to construct buildings, resulting in lower costs and saved time. 1-225564 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:32:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Nigeria https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/157/493/215740.html LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigerian property developer Olawale Ayilara is building housing estates in the affluent Lekki district of mega city Lagos, the country's commercial engine. But the cost of the project is expanding rapidly due to the increased price of cement. 1-215740 Wed, 12 May 2021 13:41:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Nigeria https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/493/214192.html John Deere is expanding its construction brand into 18 new countries across southern and western Africa, including South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Egypt, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, and Sudan. 1-214192 Wed, 24 Mar 2021 07:31:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Nigeria https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/213139.html One of the big contributors to climate change is right beneath your feet, and transforming it could be a powerful solution for keeping greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. 1-213139 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:50:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Nigeria