CORBON to embark on periodic checks on building sites
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Inspection
By Emmanuella Anokam
Abuja, Oct. 5, 2016 (NAN) The Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON) says it will conduct regular periodic inspection of building sites to curb the check the menace of building collapse in the country.
Dr Peter Kuroshi, CORBON Registrar, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Abuja, on Wednesday in Abuja that the measure was aimed at establishing and sustaining standard in building production processes.
“The council will be visiting project sites for regular and periodic checks, inspecting the contractors as well as the builder involved.
or engaged for them to produce the right thing.
“Every professional, participant, contractor, manufacturers and suppliers involved in building delivery is supposed to be regulated strictly.
“Unless we are able to establish standards and sustain this standards in respect to resources that are used and personnel that are involved in building production processes, we will continue to have challenges.
According to him, regulation should not be the responsibility of just one agency as there are several agencies of government established to ensure that standardisation is maintained.
Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), he said, was supposed to ensure that only standard resources, human and material resources were utilised for the building production processes.
Kuroshi called for collaboration for professional regulation and stringent monitoring including the regulation of the activities of contractors which h noted, was almost non-existent.
He said that CORBON was taking up responsibility of ensuring that the contractors involved in building production management processes were regulated.
He decried the way and manner actual execution of construction processes was being managed in the country.
The expert said it was in the course of investigation that the council discovered that no registered builder was involved in the construction of the Federal housing Authority building project that collapsed.
“We did our own investigations and discovered that no registered builder was involved in that project.
“But it is not only builders that deliver a building project.
“In the course of execution, periodic visit is required to supervise aspects that other professionals such as architects and engineers make inputsbecause the builder uses all their inputs to build.
“The builder will translate architectural information, interpret and generate instructions to be passed on to trade artisans and craftsmen in the project site,’’ Kuroshi noted.
He said that the council had so much to do but was limited by inadequate funding.
“We are not receiving adequate funding. What we are receiving is not even enough to pay for our office rent not to talk of procuring vehicles for monitoring and evaluation exercises.
“But as soon as we are able to afford some vehicles and pay some money to personnel who will be visiting the building project sites, enforcement and regulation that are our mandate will be sustained.
The expert said that the moment the council identified quacks in the profession, CORBON would hand them over for prosecution.
He further said that the council would also penalise any registered builder involved in malpractices.
CORBON is a government regulatory agency, established in 1989 to regulate and control building technology, profession and practices under the supervision of Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing. (NAN)
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