Africa is beautiful, uncharted, chaotic, populous and literally, the “last urban frontier”.
As a part of our practice in Africa, we have worked hard at understanding and working with the very real and peculiar challenges of the place.
Speaking specifically of Nigeria, it is one of Africa’s largest and fastest growing economies. And yet, it takes approximately 320 Naira to buy a dollar.
Couple this low purchasing power with an almost non existent manufacturing industry, the urbanization and construction is dependent largely on imports.
In our project for the Landmark Africa Group in Lagos, Nigeria, we designed a mixed use urban space, along the Victoria Island beachfront.
The use of Revit based BIM allowed us to:
1. Create multiple models of phasing as well as built volumes to analyse and arrive at the most optimum solution.
2. The BIM model was a massive help in phasing the project, managing traffic on a live site and predicting movements and large builds.
3. The client organisation uses this model today, to plan their construction cash flows as well as closely monitor ROI specific to the build cost.
4. They used the BOM capability to indigenize the components of the build, and optimize imports, saving money, as well as making the carbon footprint of the project smaller.
Phase 1 consisting of restaurants, shopping , a Cineplex and an event center along with office space is ready for fit out. Phase 2 consists of a 260 key Marriot Renaissance hotel, 130 high-rise luxury apartments and an office tower.