Building Collapse: Surveyor Blames Ground Subsidence

A land surveyor,
Francis Atuje has said that building collapse cases  across Nigeria today are not all as a result of poor construction materials, but due to ground subsidence in the project vicinity, leading to Micro-geodetic axial deformation of structure  over a period of time.
Atuje who revealed this in an interview  with The Tide in Port Harcourt said that this phenomenon was measurable  with modern surveying tools such as Differential Global  Positioning System (DGPS) and High Precision Electronic  Total Station.
He said in view of the current advances in Information and Communication  Technology, which have in several ways narrowed the professional gap, the  built environment professional must deliberately create a more inter-operate platform  for interdisciplinary interactions.
The surveyor also stressed the need for capacity building of members in terms of forming a project team for moderate handling and use of key modern surveying tools in order  for them to appreciate the requirements and need for employing such tools.
Atuje also highlighted  the benefits of integrating modern surveying tools  to better the building sector, which he said were accruable to effective integration of modern tools in project implementation.
Such benefits, according  to him, are to improve accuracy in job quantities and delivery, cost-effective and speedy delivery, cost-effective and speedy  delivery of project, assurance of project quality and longevity, enhancement  of Professional collaboration and Inter-disciplinary expertise, among others.

Corlins Walter