Builders Advised To Always Employ Services Of COREN Certified Engineers To Avert Building Collapse.
By Nneka Anoliefo
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, Engr Victor Meju, gave the advice during an audience participatory programme at Kpakpando 101.9 FM Mbaukwu, Anambra State.
Discussing the topic “Building Collapse”, one of the discussants, Engineer Sir Victor Meju, explained that Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria,
COREN, is a certified body empowered to Accredit training institutions and regulate the practice of engineers, technologist, technicians and craftsmen in Nigeria.
Engr Sir Meju who noted the implications of using quacks to build houses, described quacks as those who dishonestly claim that they acquired requisite knowledge in a particular discipline but have no certificate to show for it.
He said to tackle quackery in the engineering profession, as well as end cases of incessant building collapse in the state and country at large, COREN- ERM Anambra State Council, will, on 10th November, 2022, hold a powerful sensitization workshop at Hilton leisure Hotel, Awka, to educate craftsmen , technicians, engineers, technologists, among others, on the need to always seek the services of COREN certified Engineers in building projects and to also shun engaging the services of quacks in building houses.
In their separate remarks, Engineers Chukwujekwu Okafor and Anayo Akabuogu, also stated categorically that no person is permitted to answer Engineer when they are not licensed.
The duo frowned at building materials dealers who sell fake or substandard materials to customers, such as Rod vendors who sell 14 mm steel to customers in place of 16mm rods.
They enumerated some factors militating against efforts to check building collapse to include, government factor, material and Human factors as well as low or poor foundation designs, client construction syndrome etc.
The Chairman of COREN commended Governor Chukwuma Soludo for championing the cause of checking incessant building collapse, while calling on Engineers to Collaborate with COREN to achieve the desired objectives.
