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Residential Building Collapse In Nigeria: Causes, Effects And Solutions
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Building collapse is a defect or
imperfection, deficiency or fault in a building element or component. It
may also be as a result of omission of performance. The degree of
building collapse can therefore be related to the extent or degree of
deviation of a building from the “as – built†state which is in most
cases represent the acceptable standard within the neighborhood,
locality, state or country. (Ikpo, 1998). However, building collapse can
simply be defined as a total or partial/progressive failure of one or
more components of a building leading to the inability of the building
to perform its principal function of comfort, satisfaction, safety and
stability. The incessant buildings collapse in Nigeria has become a
great concern to all the stakeholders – the professionals in building
industry, government, private developers, clients and users, as well as
the neighborhood residents. Fall out of the researcher’s concern about
the increasing incidents of collapse building nation-wide form the basis
for this study to find out the major causes, effects and probable
remedial measures to collapse of buildings in Nigeria.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The following are the objectives of this study:
1. To examine the causes of building collapse in Nigeria.
2. To identify the effects of building collapse in Nigeria.
3. To identify the remedial measures or approaches to building collapse in Nigeria
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What are the causes of building collapse in Nigeria?
2. What are the effects of building collapse in Nigeria?
3. What are the remedial measures or approaches to building collapse in Nigeria?
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The following are the significance of this study:
1.
The outcome of this study will educate the general public and the
government of the day on the causes, effect and solutions to the cases
of building collapse in Nigeria.
2. This research will also serve as
a resource base to other scholars and researchers interested in
carrying out further research in this field subsequently, if applied
will go to an extent to provide new explanation to the topic
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