Maryland all the time. Town planners, SON, Engr bodies check the checkable & uncheck the uncheckables. The place is hillside ooo. sorry valley, abeg na una sabi una tamulology.
No more life lose.

Innodon:
Who to blame now

blame the contractor

DICKtator:
while we should be grateful no life was lost, but competent professionals should always be employed when constructing such buildings.

Cutting corners and using substandard commodities put workers and potential visitors of such buildings at risk!!!!

In as much as we do have competent professionals and adjective is missing which is "integrity" meaning there are professionals that know what is right but yet cut corners(greediness).

That's not building collapse. That's failure in formwork being set down for the concrete. Looking at the picture they just they do fresh concrete when the formwork capsized. How building go collapse and people will be untop of it and not injured. That's caused by poor carpentry work because those woods no carry the strength of the concrete pour on it and the vibration of the concrete pump machine.

How come no one is calling for the head of the owner(s) of the building? When the Synagogue building collapsed, you all came here, on NL, wailing on top of your voices - "TB Joshua is the cause. He is an anti-Christ, a fake prophet. He used inferior building materials...punish him, prosecute him, jail him...in fact, kill him!". But nobody is wailing now. Why? Obviously, it was because of hate, jealousy.

Bluffly:


In as much as we do have competent professionals and adjective is missing which is "integrity" meaning there are professionals that know what is right but yet cut corners(greediness).

I support you on this it's greediness coz they always like to re-use materials even when they know the materials as loose strength. E.g Wood which was the cause of what happen in the picture because they just dey cast the concrete with ready mix concrete ni. The machine pouring the concrete is powerful coz its using pressure pump to pump it. So the rush of pouring the concrete on weak formwork(wood) cause the capsized

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shallow man

BCISLTD:
are u telling me that all the posters above me can't see that was caused by a crane malfunction

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People should endeavour to research more or get the right information before they spew nonsense on a public forum!!!!

Thank God no life is lost! Its better now than later.

lifenajeje:
Observe the pictures ....oooobbbbsssseeerrrvveee.. Oooooohhhh..

Crane hit the scaffold and some structures for the roofing....the building is intact.

Dont mind the cretinous retar..ds!

The crane hit the cantilever and damaged it, exposing the re-inforcements.

Negligence on the part of the concrete mixes supplier and the contractor.

Sadly this project was already running late, and this will now further affect the delivery date and a host of other things!!!!

Nothing like building collapse here. Looks more like malfunction of the hugging/parapets for the roofing

Its the form work that collapsed not the complex, can't you tell the difference......this post is misleading

The incident reported earlier today about the "collapse" at the Maryland mall construction site was due to a failure of the formwork during concrete casting and not a collapse of any portion of the building structure. The props supporting the formwork was displaced by the boom of the concrete pump which led to the failure of a very small cantilever element approximately 28sqm being casted representing less than a percentage of total build-able area. This is not a structural defect in the building but a failure of the false work in the formwork system.

However, no injuries have been recorded over the entire construction period till date.

From the picture i saw, this is not a building collapse, rather it is a tower crane failure that ended up smashing the scaffolding structure and some part of the building. Am sure the damage to the building will be minimal judging by the pictures.

You call this collapse and people are still standing on top of the building. When you say collapse we intend to see rubbles all over the floor with no building standing. This is just a shift in a part of the building that was not properly erected.

Blackberrybabes:
So much building collapse here and there.


Action and reaction are equal but opposite. Is this an opposite effect of the quality of education being received by our Civil Engineering students in Universities?

Effect of blocking. When students don't read, all they know how to do is block that is what you get

Specialist900:
Those guys on top of the collapsed building get mind o. Abi them photocopy their lives keep for house

Na Juju

DICKtator:
while we should be grateful no life was lost, but competent professionals should always be employed when constructing such buildings.

Cutting corners and using substandard commodities put workers and potential visitors of such buildings at risk!!!!

It might not be incompetence or sub-standards. Sometimes it can be just an accident. Because its a building the news is akin to a plane crash. Someone mishearing something on a two-way radio can bring a building down.

Building failure isn't all about sub-standard materials. Other factors include failure in design, non compliance with standard and specifications coupled with weak supervion and the use of incompetent artisans. This is might be a structural failure. Where is NSE?

Specialist900:
Those guys on top of the collapsed building get mind o. Abi them photocopy their lives keep for house

e better to dey up up o. cos if you dey run go down, the house come fall on top you, well....

That is very good of Nigeria and Nigerians.
Let me aSk a Question - have you heard d news of any collapsed structure handled by a Builder by qualification or a Civil Engineer?
So anyone who engages ANYBODY outside dese 2 professions and Qualification does this @ deir own risk.
Most pple does not want to patronise professionals because dey don't want to pay professional charges.
Even if a Tailor or an Accountant have the fund to Build an Hospital, they will engage the sservices of a MEDICAL. DOCTOR but construction av been abused to the entrance of any tom Dick and harry.

femmyAdagba:
That is very good of Nigeria and Nigerians.
Let me aSk a Question - have you heard d news of any collapsed structure handled by a Builder by qualification or a Civil Engineer?
So anyone who engages ANYBODY outside dese 2 professions and Qualification does this @ deir own risk.
Most pple does not want to patronise professionals because dey don't want to pay professional charges.
Even if a Tailor or an Accountant have the fund to Build an Hospital, they will engage the sservices of a MEDICAL. DOCTOR but construction av been abused to the entrance of any tom Dick and harry.

But the construction of that Maryland is being done by a qualified engineering/construction firm.

For the sake of greed, we give a task that puts even our lives at risk to "quacks" and "incompetent" craftsmen all in the name of cutting costs and using cheap labour.
The price to pay for negligence would always outweigh the outcome of a costly budget. We need to learn to do things the way they ought to be done. Not deceiving ourselves by procuring cheap materials or labour for something that would otherwise improve our well being.
For many builders and stakeholders in the Real estate business, the industry has a wide margin for expansion so encourage quality and desist quantity.

the engineer should be fired,how can this happen??...am sure its a white-devil that is supervising everything....the white-man is not a good worker,the rest of the world knows that....only we blacks,dont want to accept the truth because of inferiority-complex......

Must they turn every open space to shoprite? God Will surely judged then accordingly.

Kudducini:








Na Juju

you don see am na

Malawian:

e better to dey up up o. cos if you dey run go down, the house come fall on top you, well....

you get point sha

Specialist900:
Those guys on top of the collapsed building get mind o. Abi them photocopy their lives keep for house

Abeg make you sell me that photocopy machine make I dey photocopy my own!

LordReed:


Abeg make you sell me that photocopy machine make I dey photocopy my own!

bros, i wish say the machine dey o.

Lol,and the so called engineers standing on top and they be like "baba segun I no tell you say that wire u use hold the koako no strong" lol when the ask client to consult qualified degree holding engineers they recent and seek out the baba gbemi and baba funsho them,,,,keep crashing, you van even take some selphie for us and you be like "" crashing in my domen""