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Buildings are structures designed to support a certain amount of loads without excessive deformation. The loads carried by buildings are categorized into Dead loads and Imposed Loads, and are basically weights of the building itself and other immovable objects attached to the building, and the latter weights of people and temporary objects, the weight of rain and the pressure of wind-called live loads. Any type of building can collapse but storey buildings are more prone to catastrophic collapse.
In recent times the rate at which building collapse in Nigeria has become alarming, killing people and destroying properties in the process, resulting to outright waste of hard earned resources.
As building professionals, we carried out our research and found the following as possible causes of building collapse:
The possible causes of building collapse in Nigeria are listed below:
1. The absence of preliminary soil test report
2. Structural designs and details handled by quacks;
3. Lack of adherence to specifications by the unqualified and unskilled personnel.
4. Poor and bad construction practices and Methods.
5. The use of substandard building materials.
6. Lack of proper supervision by professionals.
7. Inadequate enforcement of the existing enabling building regulations.
8. Illegal conversion of buildings which often lead to structural deficiencies( Conversion of 1 storey to 2 or 3 storey by quacks).
All these are preventable errors which could easily be avoided when clients learn to engage the services of astute professionals in their building projects,
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