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Baay projects unveils Epe green city to beat climate change, preserve environment

Engr. Segun Adegoke, Managing Director, Baay Projects.


Lagos - Baay projects, a real estate engineering firm, has emphasised the need for current housing structures to be more considerate of carbon emissions and embed environmental sustainability in their building operations.


Managing Director, Baay Projects, Engr. Segun Adegoke, said this at the sidelines of the Baay Projects Green City launch recently in Epe Area, Lagos.


Adegoke said the advice was important in view of the global climate change realities and the pertinent need to begin to reverse the damage it had done to the environment.


He said the company's green city had taken that into consideration and its green homes would preserve the environment, be technological aligned for the upwardly mobile.


"It has become important to target the interest people of the people and at the same time, we also have duty to preserve nature because of the climate change which has become a big issue worldwide not only just in Nigeria.


"For instance, when you go to a country like Norway, you would see them erecting big buildings but in between they still have a way to preserve nature.


"In Lagos, carbon pollution has become a thing so we are talking with horticulturist to come in and bring our design into fruition, because our design is to bring nature into our projects.


"The homes here today will be that place where luxury meets nature via sustainable living, energy smart saving homes with horticultural and agricultural landscape," he said.


Adegoke also stated the importance of creating a payment plan that was quite affordable to bridge the housing deficit in the country.


He projected that the Nigerian real estate sector was poised to attract real Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) and give life to the Backward Integration Plan as housing units procured made in Nigeria goods for finishing.

Source: NAN

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