IDAN underscores lack of skilled workers as setback for sector’s growth

The Interior Design Association of Nigeria (IDAN) has highlighted the challenges of infrastructure specified arsenic mediocre powerfulness proviso and trained unit arsenic the large setback affecting the industry.

President, IDAN, Dr Jennifer Chukwujekwe, said this successful Lagos, during the solemnisation of World Interior Day with the theme: ‘Bridging the Gap for a Better Multigenerational Future’.

According to her, if the assemblage gets much radical trained connected the occupation with the skills that are required and the method know-how, it volition beryllium easier and amended for the industry.

She expressed interest astir the debased sustainable practices successful the country, charging the authorities to prioritise sustainable practices for citizens to unrecorded a amended life. She said if sustainable practices are enforced successful the country, it would assistance make spaces that enactment a healthier satellite for aboriginal generations.

When we statesman to usage materials that volition not impact the environment, we thin to permission a affirmative biology legacy. So, authorities and the manufacture indispensable endeavour to prioritise sustainability,” she said.

In her keynote address, Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development successful Ogun State, Motunrayo Adeleye, emphasised that by prioritising sustainability, the built situation tin enactment the well-being of generations to come.

This committedness to sustainability she said is not conscionable astir preserving resources but besides creating a bequest of liable and ethical design.

“Using eco-friendly materials and energy-efficient technologies tin trim our biology impact. This is each astir our situation and we tin usage our designs to make healthier surviving spaces for existent and aboriginal generations.

“As interior plan professionals, students, architects and engineers, we person the powerfulness to alteration communities. By focusing connected an inclusive design, we tin empower individuals, and groups to lend meaningfully to their environment. This empowerment fosters a consciousness of belonging and intent which is indispensable for a harmonious multi-generational coexistence,” Adeleye said.