Builders have been advised to always employ the services of COREN Certified Engineers to avert building collapse.
The chairman, COREN-ERM, Anambra State Technical and Expatriate Committee, Engineer Victor Meju, gave the advice during an audience participatory radio programme, in Anambra State.
Discussing the topic, “Building Collapse’, Engineer Meju explained that COREN is a certified body, empowered to accredit training institutions and regulate the practice of engineers, technologist, technicians and craftsmen in Nigeria.
He recounted the risks of using quacks to build houses, hinting that a quack is someone, who dishonestly claims that he or she possesses requisite knowledge in a particular discipline but has no certificate to show for it.
The COREN boss commended Governor Chukwuma Soludo for championing the cause of reducing incessant building collapse in the state, calling on engineers to collaborate with COREN.
In their separate remarks, Engineer Chukwujekwu Okafor and Engineer Anayo Akabuogu, stated that no person is permitted to answer engineer when they are not licensed.
The duo frowned at rod vendors that sell fourteen-millimeter steel to customers instead of sixteen millimeters, and enumerated some factors leading to building collapse to include, government factor, material and human factors as well as low or poor designs of foundations, client construction syndrome.
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