How Nigeria loses over ₦1tr to defective building code
September 3, 2019
1:57 am
Nigeria might be losing trillions of naira to the non-review and non-domestication of its national building code. The loss includes the cost of rescue operations and deployment of emergency equipment during building collapse, and the cost of building materials, and treatment of injuries.
Besides, over 309 deaths, preventable by a functional building code, have been reported following structural collapse in the last 10 years.
What is currently regarded as a national building code was bequeathed to the country by colonialists and is no longer applicable for modern-day construction.
A building code, also known as building control or building regulation, is …
