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Assessment For Controlling Of Dampness In An Existing Building In Nigeria
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1.5 Significance of the Study
This study will help to intimate the government by giving them power to
enforce law and safe guard the lives and properties of the citizenry
that lives in housing general and life of the buildings by ensuring
strict enforcement of housing and safety policies. It will also
enlighten developers on the needs for them to involve professionals in
construction in order to avoid structural failure and collapse of
buildings. It will serve as a foundation upon which research of this
kind can be conducted and will also add to the related literature in the
area of urban and regional planning.
1.6 Scope of the Study
This
study will be carried out among selected housing estates in Lagos
State, Nigeria. Information collected from these workers shall be
subjected to further analysis and the results got from it shall be
final.
1.7 Limitation of the study
The study will be faced with a
lot of challenges and one it the problem of finance. There is not going
to be enough funds to print questionnaires and to also transport the
researcher to meet the desired respondents. Another one is time; the
researcher is currently busy with the demand of his academics. A lot of
assignments are available for the researcher to do and coupled with his
desire to read and learn at the same time. These are the major
challenges of this study.
1.8 Definitions of Terms
The following terms were used in the course of this study:
Assessment: the evaluation or estimation of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something.
Building
collapse: A building undergoes progressive collapse when a primary
structural element fails, resulting in the failure of adjoining
structural elements, which in turn causes further structural failure.
Controlling: determine the behavior or supervise the running of.
Dampness:
the presence of unwanted moisture in the structure of a building,
either the result of intrusion from outside or condensation from within
the structure. A high proportion of damp problems in buildings are
caused by condensation, rain penetration or rising damp.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated the assessment for controlling of dampness in an existing building in Nigeria. The study came as a result of the prevalent issues in the number of cases of building collapse in Nigeria especially in Lagos State. The descriptive research design was adopted for carrying out this study. Data were collected and analysed with the use of SPSS. The study had the following as the research objectives: to identify the prevalence of dampness in an existing building in Nigeria, to su ... Continue reading---
