By Philip, Ishaku Jang and Alaku Susan Esla
The University’s social science TETFund building project is 95% completed and should be ready by September as the project is almost at its completion stages says the assistant site engineer, Eng. Hyacinth.
This was disclosed in an interview with the assistant site engineer when Unijos Echo paid a visit to the construction site at the Naraguta Campus of the university.
According to him “the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Sebastian S. Maimako, pays a regular visit to ensure that the work is in progress and toward completion and the workers also put in their best as to see that the work is completed in due time so as to give the students a conducive learning environment”.
He also lamented over the wages of the laborers as it is more expensive under the present administration as compared to some few year back.
The two storey-building is structured with three phases as it comprises of 12 classrooms of about 200 capacity each, 12 laboratories of about 100 capacity each, 200 offices including stores rooms, convenient rooms for lecturers and students, a boardroom for the faculty’s senate and a 1000 sitters hall.
In his words, he stated that the project was awarded to four different contractors with the main entrance already completed and handed over to the Faculty of Social Sciences for use and with the remaining sides almost at completion with 95% percent of the work done and only 5% percent left for its completion. He stated that “one of the remaining sides yet to be completed is at the roofing stage, while the other is at the expansion joint stage” of which the workers are working on it.
The assistant site engineer, Eng. Hycienth, in his final words, urged the students to cultivate a maintenance culture as the building should be completed by September and to be handed over to be Faculty before or by the end of the year. He also challenged the school management that more of this befitting architectural design and model should be adopted in subsequent projects so as to aid student learning.
Photo Credit: Peace Sallah
Editing by JM
