By InvestAdvocate
Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc has announced the appointment of Detlev Lubasch as director and the new managing director (MD) of the company effective July 1, 2014.

The company in a statement to the Nigerian stock exchange (NSE) said the appointment of Lubasch came on the heels of a meeting its board of directors held on June 18, 2014 .

The construction giant said Lubasch replaces Wolfgang Goetsch, who resigned his appointment as the MD of the company, with effect from June 30, 2014, to take up other responsibilities within the Julius Berger Group but remains on the board of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc as a non-executive with effect from July 1, 2014.

Lubasch has a Diploma –Ign. (Civil Engineer) in 1983 from Technical University, Darmstadt.
He started his professional career as a Structural Engineer with a private engineering office in Idestein/Germany with focus in all kinds of static calculations of reinforced concrete works, steel and wooden constructions.

Also, Lubasch relocated to Nigeria as a works Planner in Abuja for Infrastructural contracts: Central Area Phase II, Maitama Residential District (1987 – 1989), and became the Site Manager in Abuja for turnkey building contracts supervising the construction of Government Residential Buildings, a Golf Course Clubhouse, renovating of buildings, with highest standard (1989 – 1993).
He became the Project Manager for the Construction of the Ikot Abasi Aluminium Smelter Plant in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria (1993 – 1998). Lubasch became a Corporate Coordinator affiliated with Julius Berger Nigeria Plc in Abuja (1998 – 1999) while between 2000 – 2001, he was the Project Engineer with International Division Head Office (Bilfinger Berger Nigeria GmbH) in Wiesbaden; development and tendering of new projects in Nigeria.

Other notable positions and roles Lubasch occupied in Julius Berger Plc include: Project Manager for an Infrastructural contract in Abuja – Abuja Additional Roads Phase I (2001 – 2002), Project Manager for the Building Department (ABD) in Abuja (2002 – 2003), Divisional Manager for Abuja Projects (2003 – 2007), Divisional Manager for ABU-FSP: Abuja projects and those for the Federal Government, State Governments and Parastatals and Private Clients (2007 – 2009).

He is a member of the board of Julius Berger International GmbH and was an Office Engineer for Technical Departments at the Bilfinger Berger Nigeria GmbH in Wiesbaden prior to this appointment.