African Excellence Awards 2021

8 MEA MARKETS / African Excellence Awards 2021 , Best Technical Consulting Service 2020 - Nigeria & Leading Providers of Environmental & Social Impact Assessments - Nigeria Established in 1975 as the regional practice of UK consultants, Allot and Lomax, Allott (Nigeria) Ltd has evolved to become an independent andmajor Nigerian technical consulting practice offering services inmarine engineering, highway and railway engineering, environmental services, and technical research studies. Striving to meet Nigeria’s growing demand for efficient technical consulting, Allott provides professional services from feasibility studies to environmental impact assessment to design and construction supervision. With over 45 years’ experience and over 500 projects successfully executed for both public and private sector clients in Nigeria, Allott has the experience and expertise to deliver efficient and cost effective technical consulting services. Its projects have been of various sizes and complexities, including the structural design and supervision of Challeram office tower in Lagos. Among the companies Allott has provided services are Dangote Group, Ibeto Industries, Lafarge Nigeria, Grimaldi Termial, Notore Chemical Industries, and the Nigerian Gas Company, as well as government ministries and several world bank-funded projects. It is the company’s usual practice to collaborate closely with other professionals either through educational institutions or by association with international consultants in order to provide clients with the best possible service. Allott Managing Director, University of Wales-educated and British Safety Council-trained environmental specialist, Attahiru Usman, said, “the vision is to lead my team in building a strong pan-African technical consulting company that will harness the abundant skills and competence available across the continent to support the development of infrastructure” Attahiru Usman has over 20 years of experience in environmental management from both the public and private sectors. He has coordinated several major environmental impact assessment studies for transport infrastructure in Nigeria. These include the ESIA for the dualization of the East-West Road (Warri-Mbiama- Port Harcourt-Eket-Oron), the EIA Nasarawa World Bank Community Based Infrastructure Development Project, the EIAs of Ibeto Cement Terminal, Port Harcourt and the Atlas Cement Terminal Onne Port Harcourt. He is currently the Project Director for the ESIA of the proposed construction of the Kano-Maradi trans-boundary railway project connecting Nigeria & the Niger Republic and the ESIA for the extension of East-West Road Project Section V (Oron-Calabar). Marine engineering projects that have been completed include the environmental impact assessment, project management, detailed engineering design and construction supervision of Atlas Cement Terminal, Onne Port Harcourt, in association with Beckett Rankine Partnership UK in November 2000. The project involved dredging to May21262 deepen the channel and the use of the dredged spoil for land reclamation. There was also the construction of a jetty and berthing dolphins with shore side administration and support facilities. Allott also completed in May 2005 the detailed engineering design and supervision on the construction of Ibeto Cement Terminal in Port Harcourt, in association with Beckett Rankine Partnership UK. This project comprised an environmental impact assessment, initial investigations, construction/ reclamation, site layout, planning and design of a jetty and berthing dolphins with shore side administration and support facilities. Another marine project includes the detailed engineering design of and construction supervision for the rehabilitation and expansion of NOTORE jetty in Onne Port Harcourt, which was completed in November 2007, also in association with Beckett Rankine Partnership UK. Allott also