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Our firm’s involvement in education infrastructure encompasses nursery/primary schools, secondary schools, libraries, laboratories and buildings for polytechnic, tertiary, vocational and university education. Our Sierra Leone operation has single handedly designed rehabilitation projects of note as part of the post-war agenda of aggressively compensating for lost grounds in the education infrastructure sector. We have also provided professional services for education sector projects funded by the African Development Bank, World Bank, Government of Sierra Leone, Government of Delta State, Nigeria, European Union and the Islamic Development Bank respectively. We recently completed a US$30million upgrade of the infrastructure of sub-Sahara Africa’s oldest University: Fourah Bay College of the University of Sierra Leone. City centre developments and office buildings both constitute important sectors of our portfolio of projects. Our design outcomes are usually informed by the existing urban milieus, budget, energy conservation and desired functional performance of the buildings and facilities. Not unexpectedly, exorbitant land values in most CBDs (Central Business Districts) have often dictated the recourse to the vertical concept of development.
Most of our urban schemes often reflect the qualities of commanding identity, flexibility and efficiency central to the conceptualization of most authentic CBD-based offices and mixed developments. The brief for every Health sector project is exhaustively digested and authentic solutions proffered in keeping with the dictates of required functional adjacencies, envisioned work flow of medical personnel equipment layouts and available budget. We have been consulted by the Government of Sierra Leone and Nigeria respectively on health sector infrastructure for both primary and referral facilities. We have also rendered services to UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF on health sector space solutions. Our Sierra Leone office recently designed: Tertiary Health Facilities at Lumley, Waterloo and Macauley Street in Freetown. We are currently completing designs for Sierra Leone’s first privately owned Cancer Hospital and a $150m Saudi- funded Teaching Hospital for Kerry Town Sierra Leone. We are also currently concluding the project management of 8nr Primary Health Care Units in all the province of Sierra Leone. Our Sierra Leone office was responsible for the master plan, infrastructure layout and design of the prison facilities of the UN War Crimes Tribunal known as the Sierra Leone Special Court (West Africa’s first and only so far) in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In collaboration with Norman and Dawbarn UK we also participated in the delivery of the Main Court Chambers of the UN Special Court Complex. In 2003/2004 our Nigerian office prepared conceptual and detail designs for a broad range of judicial buildings which included 3Nr prototype High Courts, Magistrate Courts, Customary Court of Appeal Complex in Asaba and the Ultra-modern High Court Complex for Warri. We also recently articulated a proposal for a 12-floor court complex for the Judiciary of Sierra Leone.
We have considerable experience in the design, fitting and project management of sports and recreation infrastructure. In 1999, we were engaged by the global soccer regulatory world body (FIFA-Switzerland) as Architectural and Engineering consultants for the Sierra Leone Football Academy at Kingtom, Freetown. In 2006, we were commissioned to design an ultra modern sports complex for the Delta State University at Abraka, Nigeria. We have also prepared schemes for indoor sports facilities for other state governments in Nigeria. We have also prepared preliminary design proposals for prototype mini-stadia to be located in provincial headquarter towns under the Youth Empowerment Programme of the Sierra Leone government. Our portfolio of designed/completed projects in this sector include lawn tennis courts, swimming pools, squash courts, gymnasium and an assortment of children play grounds. We have won a number of commissions to design and manage the construction of hotels and a broad spectrum of tourism-based developments. For years, our Freetown office has served on an advisory capacity to the National Tourist Board of Sierra Leone vide its membership of its Technical Committee. At one time or the other, we have served as consultants to such key Sierra Leonean Hotels as the Bintumani Hotel, Country Lodge Hotel, Radisson Blu Hotel, MJ Motels and Brookfields Hotel in Freetown. In Nigeria, our notable hotel and recreational projects are; Luxury Suites for Cowrey Hotels in Calabar, Cross River State, a recent proposal for Pinnacle Hotels at Ekpan (near Warri), Delta State , Multiplex Recreational Park Design for Asokoro, Abuja (FCT.), Warri Bridge Project and Warri Water Park for Delta State Government. We have also provided designs for dozens of beach taverns, restaurants, night clubs and bars in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Guinea respectively. We have successfully derived solutions to several head office and branch outlet buildings for a number of financial institutions in West Africa. We were commissioned by GTBank Nigeria Headquarters to handle the reconstruction of their flagship outlet in Wilberforce Street Freetown, Sierra Leone and the bank’s first Liberian outlet in 2009. At the end of the Sierra Leone civil war, our Sierra Leonean operation provided design solutions to over seventy percent of the country’s registered commercial banks.
Some of our banking sector projects that have been built include Union Trust Bank Ltd., Howe Street Freetown, Sierra Leone Commercial Headquarter Extension at George Street in Freetown and branches in Bo, Kono, Makeni, Port Loko and Liverpool Street, Freetown, GTBank, Access Bank, Keystone Bank and FBN Bank Head Offices were either designed or redesigned by our firm. Our company had also served as retainer consultants to Sierra Leone’s apex bank (the Bank of Sierra Leone) on its Staff Pensions Scheme in 1996.
In late 2003, the Standard Chartered Bank group in Sierra Leone engaged our services as project consultants for its first comprehensive refurbishment programme. We also serve as retainer consultants to Reliance Insurance Trust Corporation of Sierra Leone. In 2005 we were appointed as overall consultants for Guaranty Trust Bank’s outlet in the regional headquarter town of Bo, Southern, Sierra Leone Designing religious buildings demand a rational synthesis of the specific principles of worship and activity- sequence of end-users. We have paid heed to these sine qua non and other doctrinal details in creating pleasant places of worship.
Our firm has served as architects and planners for the following devotional projects:-
• Mosque at Makeni, Northern Sierra Leone
• Pentecostal Church, Ogba, Nigeria
• Re-design of Baptist Church, Circular Road, Freetown which was burnt during the rebel attack on Freetown in 1999.
• Extension of UMC King Memorial Church, Goderich Street, Freetown, SL.
• Fullah Central Mosque, Joaque Bridge precinct, Freetown, SL
• Duwa Islamic Institute, Freetown, SL
• Ultra-Modern Church Complex for Abiding
• Word Ministries in Banjul, the, Gambia (2001)
• Re-Design and Project Management of mixed-use Church facility for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Bellair Park, Freetown, Sierra Leone (2007).
• Several Pre-Design Studies for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Messima, Bo (Southern Province) and Grafton (Western Area) respectively in Sierra Leone (2005 –2007).
• Christ Miracle Fellowship Assembly Head quarter Otokutu, Ughelli South L.G.A, Delta State, Nigeria (2013)
• Flaming Bible Church Ascension, Freetown, Sierra Leone (2014)
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Ideas Partnership delivers world class solutions to customers and stakeholders across a broad range of industry sectors.
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Our Team
The Ideas team is a skilled group of professionals with extensive experience and expertise as well as a shared vision of delivering consistently great results for our clients.
Arc. Abel T. ONOMAKE
DIRECTOR/C.E.O
(JP) FNIA, MSLIA, MASI, AIA(int ass.), ACIOB, MNAHB
A founding Director of IDEAS Ltd Sierra Leone and IDEAS Partnership Nigeria, Arc Onomake is a multi-disciplinary design/infrastructure specialist with concurrent qualifications and
experience in Architecture, Building Construction, Property Valuation and Project Management respectively.
He attended the University of Ife in Nigeria in 1979 and graduated MSc Architecture in 1987. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), and a member of the Sierra Leone Institute of Architects ( SLIA). He also belongs to a string of other professional institutions worldwide. Abel Onomake oversees and coordinates the commissions and professional deliverables of the firm in West Africa. He has been in active practice of Architecture and Project
Management for the past 35 years with over 500 completed projects under his belt.
Ing Forde Jenner B.
General Manager
Registered Engineer, Higher Tech. Dip Building/Civil Engineering, BSc. Project Management, PG Dip Procurement MBA.
Ing Forde is the current General Manager of the Sierra Leone Operations of the firm.
He is an experienced project management professional He combines qualifications in the value chains of Building Construction, Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Procurement. For over 20 years, Forde has been involved in a variety of roles in IDEAS Ltd spanning design, project planning, contractor procurement and construction management. His roles also include superintending the administration and projects’ coordination in the firm.
Arc. Labija Unekwu Ivan
Head, Architectural design
MSc. Architecture, MSLIA
Arc. Labija is a graduate of Architecture from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. He is a seasoned architect with concurrent qualifications and experience in Architecture, Building Construction and Project Management. He is the head of Architectural design for the Sierra Leone office. He has scores of satisfactorily completed projects to his name and has consistently been in the active practice in Architecture and project management for the past twenty years.
Kadiri Alasan Zuberu
Head, Quantity Surveying & Property Valuation
Higher National Dip in Quantity Surveying, Cert in BIM (UK)
Mr Kadiri is a seasoned Practising Quantity Surveyor and a versed Construction Cost
Consultant. He honed his profession in Abuja , Nigeria for several years before relocating to Sierra Leone in 2009.
He has also practised Quantity Surveying in Liberia and Guinea.
Kadiri’s experience encompasses residential and commercial real estate, health sector, office developments, educational and tourism sector projects. He heads Quantity Surveying and Property Valuation at Ideas Ltd He has over 15 years of practise under his belt.
Koroma Abdul Hiye
Finance Manager
ACCA, MFA, BSc. Hons, TDA, Chartered Accountant
Abdul Hiye Koroma has qualifications and experience in Accounting, Audit, Taxation, and Project Finance Management.
He attended the Institute of Public Administration of the University of Sierra Leone and bagged a BSc in Accounting. This was followed by a Masters degree in Finance in 2018.
He is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of Sierra Leone.
He coordinates and superintends the financial operations of IDEAS Company Sierra Leone.
Ing Negedu Lucas Eleojo
Head, Structural/Highway Engineering
C.Eng, MNSE, MICE, Chartered Banker, CIBN, B. Eng. (Civil Engineering). B.Sc. Economics
Negedu holds a 1980 B.Eng. (Civil Engineering) from Ahmadu Bello University and B.Sc. Economics from the University of Abuja. A registered Chartered Engineer, Negedu is Head of Structural/Highway Engineering at IDEAS Ltd SL and IDEAS Partnership Nig. After graduation he worked for Delta Steel Company Ltd as a Civil /Structural Engineer for a decade.
He spent over two decades as Project Engineer and Investment Banker in Development Banks (Bank of Industry and Infrastructure Bank) where he participated in the conception and execution of various portfolios of housing, industrial and infrastructure developments in excess of $200 million. He became a Senior consultant at IDEAS Ltd in 2014 where he has been responsible for the firm’s Structural/Civil Engineering designs and supervision.
Ing Osanekwu Endurance
Manager, building services
High National Dip in Electrical Engineering
is a 2003 graduate of Electro-Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers.
He is responsible for the firm's deliverables on Building Services in Sierra Leone and Nigeria respectively. He has provided pre and post-contract services for over 100 projects, across the sectors of health, educational, tourism, commercial and agricultural etc.
Layanju Oladapo Gbenga
Architectural Design Executive
MSc Arch, GSLIA
Dapo is an Architectural Design Executive at IDEAS Ltd SL/ IDEAS Partnership Nigeria. He has brought his impressive design insights and remarkable creativity to bear on the
over 3 dozen major projects he has designed and/or supervised for the firm. He holds an MSc Architecture degree from the renowned Obafemi Awolowo University in Ife, Nigeria.
He has garnered half a decade of cognate post-graduation experience in active practice.
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