By Mimidoo Patrick
Determined to address the menace of buildings collapsed across the federation, the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) has again mobilized its term of experts to investigate and prepare a technical report on the three-storey building that collapsed in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State.
According to the acting Director General of (NBRRI), Prof. Samson Duna, the team is expected to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the collapsed and report to him for immediate recommendation.
Duna, who disclosed this in a chat with Viewpoint Housing News in Abuja, noted that the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration was committed to finding a lasting solution to the menace of building collapsed in Nigeria.
He said, “This administration is determined to do everything that is humanly possible to stop building collapse because of its toll on human life”.
“A panel of experts has been constituted by the institute to investigate and prepare a technical report on the collapse of a 3-story building located at Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State”.
The building
which was said to be under construction and meant to be used as a hotel
collapsed at about 5:30A.M on Saturday according to an eyewitnesses killed
four of the workers who had resumed for the day’s work while many others were
trapped.
He said Engr Akinmade O.Daniel will serve as the chairman of the term while Ezirim Sunny serves as the secretary.
Others includes, Engr Obiora Chukwuman Gerald, Engr Chidi Amiara, Igwechkwu Kingsley while the director general oversee the investigation.
According to him, “it is important that every building collapse should be investigated to secure human life and protect the environment”.
He added that, as a research institute of construction industries there is an urgent need to stop this ugly trend by investigating the root causes of the problems and make an appropriate recommendation that would end this menaced
Duna lamented that the impact of collapse building affected entire human fabrics, causing psychological trauma, loss of lives and properties, loss of government revenue, with victims being rendered homeless apart from suffering permanent disabilities
According to him, most of the building collapsed has been linked to man-made mistakes which can be avoided and eradicated completely.
The chairman, Engr Akinmade O.Daniel promised, on behalf of the term, to get to the root causes of the problems and proffer practical and implementable solutions that would go a long way to forestall future occurrence.
It would be recalled that the three-storey building caved in during a downpour on Saturday morning killing four workers who were waiting for the rain to subside to begin work when a section of the building started falling.
