Kuye Olusegun

There is a need for professional ethics and code of conduct for Estate Surveyors and Valuers so as to guide the discharge of services to the general public as well as to curb any unethical behaviour. Consequently, the regulating body, the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON),…

• Professional: A professional is a person who has acquired specialized knowledge, training and skill approved, recognised and registered to carry out, individually or collectively, the vocation of the profession.

Abuse is the improper usage, or treatment for a bad purpose, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit, physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, sexual assault, violation, rape, unjust practices, wrongful practice or custom, offense, crime, or verbal aggression. Abuse can come in many forms.

A professional has the following attributes: • A professional is a member of a vocation founded upon specialised educational training.

ISO 9001: 2000 defines process as a set of interrelated or interacting activities which transforms inputs to outputs. Anjard (1998) and Hamid, Baldry & Alexander (2008) describes a process as a series of activities (tasks, steps, events, operations) that takes an output, adds value to it, and produces an output…

Privatisation is simply the transfer of state control or ownership to the private sector. Savas (n.d.) in (Nubi, 2002), widely regards as the father of privatisation movement, define privatisation as “more reliable on the private sector institution and less on government to satisfy needs”. Entrepreneur skills, efficiency in management, the…

‘Power of Attorney’ (POA) is a formal instrument by which a person (the Donor) authorizes or empowers another person (The Donee) to do things or act in his stead. It represents a wilful, conscious and personal wish of a person to make another act on his behalf, devoid of undue…

Evaluation and feedback are the cornerstones for the continuous improvement in building procurement. Good feedback is an intrinsic part of good briefing and design of buildings. To be most effective building performance evaluation must happen throughout the lifecycle of the building.

A pledge is a kind of indigenous mortgage by which the owner-occupier of land, in order to secure an advance of money or monies worth, gives possession and use of land to the pledge creditors until the debt is fully paid or discharged.

• Planning: Planning, in the context of project management, is the deliberate consideration of all the circumstances concerned with a project in order to evolve the best method of achieving a stated objective.