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An Assessment Of Causes, Effect And Repair Of Cracks In Building Construction Project In Imo State
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1.3 DEFINITION OF TERMS
- Building Regulation:- This is a rule prescribe for builders conduct.
- Builder:- This is a professional that undertakes the errection of structures or a building.
- Professional:- This is same who has learnt the special trade needed to do his job well.
- Design:- This is an architectural plan for the purpose of a particular construction project.
- Building:- It is an act of constructing any substantial structures.
- Failure:- This is when construction fail to fulfill it function due to negligence or inexperience of building team.
- Construction:- This is an act of building or erection of structures or the act of constructing.
- Assessment:- The process of assessing situation
- Cause:- The efficient thing that which make thing to be or happened.
- Effects:- A result or product of some cause or agency i.e consequence.
- Foundation:- This is a component that transfer weight of building and occupant to the earth.
- Craftsman:- This is a skilled person that specially trained and make beautiful thing by hand.
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Contractor: This is a qualified person or company who can provide
professional services to the other especially in building.
- Cracking: This is line opening on the wall of building which can lead to collapse.
- Material:- This are the component use to make a building e.g block glass and sand e.t.c
- Structure:- This s an arrangement of path of building.
- Faults:- This is a major mistake in the design or a wrong insertion in the design.
- Aesthetic:- This is concerned with beauty and the understand of beautiful thing in structure.
- Maintenance:- This is the act of keeping structure in good condition by checking or repairing regularly.
- Site:- This is an area of land where building is being building.
- Stair case:- A set of stair inside a building including the post an rail.
- Roof:- This is a structure that cover or foam the top of a building.
- Ceiling:- This is the top finish inside a room of a building.
Complied from – Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
1.4 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
This project research is aimed at investigating the causes and effects of building failure in Nigeria especially in Lagos State and suggest possible ways of averting future occurrence if not total; eradication of the incidence. However, the following will form the objectives of the study in achieving the above aim.
1. To identity and assesses the various building failure.
2. To assess the important of building code and regulation in the construction industry
3. To assess the effects of building failure on general public and economic delivery of the project.
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTION
Following are the question that would be treated in the course of this study:
- How effectives are the building regulation laws.
- Whose responsibility it is to enforce the building construction law.
- Who should be held responsible for building without approved law.
- What level is the most crucial stage in building construction.
- Who should be held responsible for building without approval.
1.6 SCOPE / LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The scope of study is centered around the assessment of the cause and effects of building failure which is limited to public, private building be it low or high rise building within Lagos State.
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