As reactions continue to trail last Wednesday’s collapsed building at Ita Faji Street, Lagos Island, killing several children and injuring scores of others, professionals in the built environment have noted that strict enforcement of building code by developers is the panacea to the unabated menace of building collapse in the country,
Emergency and rescue personnel are seen at the site of a building which collapsed in Lagos on March 13, 2019. – At least 10 children were among scores of people missing on March 13, 2019 after a four-storey building collapsed in Lagos, with rescuers trying to reach them through the roof of the damaged structure. The children were attending a nursery and primary school on the top floor of the residential building when the structure collapsed.
“The collapsed building we are told, was a mix use housing a school and residents. The question begging for answer is , was the building originally designed and built for mix use or was it adapted for mix use after construction?. The superimposed load to habour a school is not the same for a residential use, particularly on the upper floors.“While the superimposed load for a school is about 5.0kN/m2 , residential is between 1.5kN/m2 to 2kN/m2 .
Speaking with journalists weekend over the Ita Faji collapse, Amos Alao, an architect and National Secretary of Landscape Architects of Nigeria SLAN, said the strict enforcement of the Nigerian building code will avert the recurring building collapse in Nigeria. “We are yet to implement the Nigerian building code which covers that if you are going to build a high rise building, it is supposed to have a certain percentage of soil volume or capacity to hold it. A lot of things are wrong with the Nigerian construction industry, everybody has this fault, from the manufacturers, to the clients, the engineers and the marketers.
Alao, who also called for the vetting of building materials imported into the country, while importers of fake building materials are to be brought to book. He disclosed that engineers have always had the bulk of the blame for most of the collapses in the country, adding that they are either blamed for structural designs or low quality materials.
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