MAJOR CAUSES OF BUILDING FAILURE IN NIGERIA:-
1.Faulty Building Design By Quacks
2.Avoiding construction cost at the expense of strength stability
3. Overloading Of Building
4.No Structural Design
5.Breach Of Building Construction Specifications, Procedures and Methods Of Construction.
6. Unauthorised Conversion of Bungalow To Storey Building
7.Carelessness.
8.Poor workmanship due to lack of knowledge in material quality control
9.Poor supervision
10.Substandard building materials 11.Quackery ( e.g Use of Blocklayer in Place of Skilled Construction Engineer etc)
12.Noncompliance with approved building plan
13.Rainstorm etc