ITB Nigeria Limited is a civil engineering and construction company with a primary focus on constructing high-quality buildings for residential and industrial purposes. With its head office in Lagos and a major regional facility in Abuja, the company has solidified its position as a leader in the Nigerian construction market.
Lagos Skyline, Nigeria
Key Projects and Developments
ITB Nigeria has a successful track record of delivered projects and strong relationships with its clients. This has reinforced its position as a leader in the market. Some of their notable projects include:
- The Azuri Peninsula: A new luxury residential development situated in the Marina District of the new Eko Atlantic City.
- Eko - Guest House: Owned by Eko Hotels, this design and build contract is set to be the tallest building in Victoria Island, reaching 118.34m from the finished ground level. The structure consists of reinforced concrete columns, beams, and Hollow Core slabs, all sitting on piles and a raft concrete foundation.
- Completed Heritage Tower: A meticulously designed landmark.
Construction of the Azuri Peninsula in Eko Atlantic City
Eko Atlantic City: A Visionary Project
Eko Atlantic is a planned district of Lagos, Nigeria, being constructed on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. Located on Lagos’ Bar Beach, this ambitious project aims to stop the erosion of the Lagos coastline and create a modern, efficient urban center. The new city of Eko Atlantic is one of the most impressive urban development projects in Nigerian construction.
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The ten-square-kilometer development will feature waterfront areas, tree-lined streets, efficient transport systems, and mixed-use plots that combine residential areas with leisure facilities, offices, and shops. ITB is proudly associated with the multi-billion USD project as one of the main construction companies tasked with building upon the 10 million square meter land reclamation site.
The keys to the 244 luxury apartments of the Azuri Peninsula complex will be among the first to be handed over in the entire Eko Atlantic project, a spectacular business and residential city under construction on an artificial peninsula in Lagos, the financial capital of Nigeria. The State of Lagos and the Chagoury group are leading this ambitious project that will allow Africa's most populated country to gain around 10 square kilometers of land that was lost to the Atlantic ocean, hoping to create an important business hub for the entire continent.
Azuri Peninsula is being built in the Marina District, one of the new ten districts of this city and the one that will concentrate most of its leisure opportunities.
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Advanced Construction Techniques
Contractor ITB Nigeria is using 6 COMANSA cranes for the construction of the AZURI PENINSULA apartments, developed by EKO Development Company in brand new city on reclaimed land in Lagos. There are six COMANSA cranes working on this project all which belong to the fleet of the turnkey contractor ITB NIGERIA LIMITED. The machines, all with flat-top design and maximum load capacity of 18 and 20 tonnes, are taking on the construction of the three towers that form a complex of more than 140 meters in height and up to 32 floors.
Among the six cranes, two are model 21LC550, one is a 21LC335 model and the remaining three are 21LC290 model. All of them were erected initially with low heights, but the team from ITB Nigeria used the hydraulic jacking cages in different occasions to jack-up the machines as the buildings were growing taller. The cranes are now working at their maximum height, reaching the tallest up to 163.5 meters.
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All COMANSA cranes at the Azuri Peninsula project were equipped with the Effi-Plus system, which increases significantly the hoisting speeds with light loads. COMANSA's PowerLift System, which improves the load diagram of the crane by 10% was significantly used as well.
According to Paul Kattar, Tower Crane Manager at ITB NIGERIA, "Due to the height of the buildings, it has been essential to rely on cranes with high hoist speeds. The work cycles of the COMANSA cranes on site are very short, which increase its productivity, and helps us to also shorten work times".
The Cranes are working 24 hours a day, lifting steel structures during the daytime and helping with the concrete works during the night. Many weekends, the tower crane team had to move and fix the collars and jack the cranes up to leave them ready before Monday morning.
ITB Nigeria: A Growing Force
ITB Nigeria limited, part of the construction division of the Chagoury group, was formed in 1995 in Lagos. a growing demand for specialist, civil engineering services, enabled I.T.B. to focus its energies on developing an African market for its expertise. The company is proud to proclaim it is one of the only civil engineering and construction firms whose head office and main operations are based solely in Africa. With over 2500 employees, I.T.B. has become the growing face of Nigerian development.
Fadi Sawaya, I.T.B’s Managing Director, believes the company’s main strength is in its ability to work on a project from scratch: “the company has always been able to undertake any construction project from conception to completion. we are very much design and build-orientated, this gives us a competitive edge as we can create plans based on project requirements and can implement cutting-edge ideas into our projects.”
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ITB Nigeria are a company that have withstood economic challenges and come out of it stronger and with a greater self belief. Sawaya puts this down to two main factors: professional management and vision. “We are a market leading company but we do not just sit back and enjoy that title, we are constantly looking for new ways to make the company even better and more advanced than before. Technology and industry practices are always changing and I.T.B. will always change with them.
The ITB Nigeria Team
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