Assessment of structural failures in Nigeria: A case study of worship centre

Abstract

The frequency of structural or building collapse is on the increase in the developing world. The devastation occasioned by this phenomenon is huge in both human and capital investment. Nigeria like other countries is not immuned against the ugly trend of increase structural failures. A Building or structural collapse may be described as the inability of the entity to hold the load it was designed for available records show that building or engineering or structural failures cannot be attributed to residential structures alone. Bridges have also suffered such fate. This paper will focus primarily on church buildings collapse in Nigeria. The authors of this paper will carry out a review of the immediate as well as remote causes of building collapse and suggest ways to ameliorate and suggest preventive measures that they hope will permanently address the concerns about religious building collapse in Nigeria.