Nigerian NBBRI Director Chief Gibson Chigbu tours Northern States.

Nigerian NBBRI Director Chief Gibson Chigbu tours Northern States.

A member of the Board of Directors of the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) today begins an official tour of selected states in Northern Nigeria.

Chief Gibson C. Chigbu who will visit Katsina and Sokoto States amongst others, arrived Katsina State today to interact with strategic stakeholders in the building and road  reaserach industry.
The tour is aimed at creating workable collaboration between NBRRI and key industry players with a view to create operational relationship and to educate key building organizations with global best practices and new innovations in the building and road construction industry.

NBRRI is a Government of Nigeria institute responsible for researching and developing road and building materials for the Nigerian building industry. The institute is under the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology of Nigeria. 
Membership of the Board of the institute is made up of leading building engineers in the country appointed by the President Mohammadu Buhari.

The headquarters of NBRRI is in Abuja, Nigeria. [4] There are four zonal offices that facilitates the institutes activities. They are:
1. Eastern Zonal Office in Anambra State 
2. Western Zonal Office in Ikoyi , Lagos.
3. Northern Zonal Office in Kano, Kano State.
4. National Liboratory & Production Complex in Otta, Ogun State.

Speaking today in Katsina, Chief Chigbu disclosed that the institute engages the Government of Nigeria on various policies that regulate and improve the quality of buildings and roads in Nigeria. 

It will be recalled that in May, 2011 the Federal Government of Nigeria announced that it would empower the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute to set up a Material Testing Laboratory to be cited in the Federal Capital Territory. The testing lab was to provide a facility for the testing of building material before use. 

According to Chief Chigbu,  the facility had become necessary due to the regular occurrence of collapsing buildings.  He stated that the facility will function as research and education centre for tertiary institutions and the construction industry.

Chief Chigbu informed journalists in an interview session in Katsina that NBRRI has research collaboration with other state and foreign agencies. 

In 2009, the institutes and its Ghanaian counterpart signed a memorandum of understanding to research into building and road construction materials. In June 2011, the NBRRI announced it was partnering with the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria for the construction of 1,000 housing units in every state of Nigeria. The partnership required that all the buildings be constructed using alternative building materials that had been developed by the institute, he stated.

Chief Gibson Chigbu said that NBRRI has developed a new technology for the moulding of bricks known as cement stabilized bricks technology. The new technology was to reduce the cost of building due to a cheap alternative building material that the technology used in the production of bricks.

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