10 SHAMEFUL REASONS WHY TENANTS FIGHT



Face-me-i-face-you kind of buildings is always guilty of attracting troublesome tenants. One of such buildings has 14 rooms. Just imagine! This is civilian barracks. Quarrel is a common experience here. Following are the major reasons why tenants fight:
1.       Children fight: some children have been known to drag their parents into a full blown fight
2.       Poor sweeping habit: failure to sweep properly the other tenants space
3.       Gossip: when secrets leaks, fight is started
4.       Messing up the toilet: failure to flush the toilet properly after use could initiate quarrel, and if not controlled could lead to a fight
5.       Not participating in environmental sanitation especially when others are doing it
6.       Jealousy and envy: when you buy new things, the other tenant is not happy because you are making progress
7.       Lack of kitchen privacy: some tenants spy into what you are cooking, and have subject to gossip about
8.       Struggle to gain supremacy over the control of the compound: one stands out as the caretaker and gives rules to others to comply. Some resist this attempt by serving as a rival
9.       Bad manners, not greeting your neighbor the right way. Some pick offense if you see them and fail to greet them as if it is their birthright. Harbouring grudges as a result of this lay the foundation for enmity and cold shoulder treatment.
10.   Coming home late at night: knocking on your neighbours door or window is a habit that some cannot tolerate. They tend to ignore you and refuse to open the door just to teach you a lesson. You get angry, and you wait for a convenient time to treat others the same way. Trouble is gradually brewing

BLOCKS: THE FRAMEWORK OF A STRONG BUILDING


The strength of your building is a function of the constituent blocks. A finely molded blocks contributes to the enduring life span of your house. Today, it is all too common to find quacks parading themselves as block molders. In my survey, I have discovered that not all molders are able to produce the kind of blocks that will stand the test of time.
Why Some Blocks are Weak
1.       The sand composition if not thoroughly mixed makes rain to chip it away. Apart from this, merely lifting the block up, makes it to fragment and scatter.
2.       Excess quantity of sand in the composition. For maximum strength, a given number of blocks is produced from one bag of cement(minimum 30, maximum 40). Sometimes, greedy contractors steal some bags of cement when not monitored, and at the same time, try to produce the total number of blocks required from all the bags of cement.


Strong blocks, strong building
In view of the foregoing, building projects should not be left in the hands of quacks, because its overall short term and long term implication is enormous. Consult us today. Leave that project in our hands and we will take it up from scratch to that dream home you have desired. Our world-class experts hold to the best building practices.

BUILDING COLLAPSE: CAUSES AND CAUTION




There is a high record of collapsed buildings. The one that happened in Lagos, while still fresh in the memory, another one occurred in Benin City on Friday, 19th 2014 barely days after the Lagos incidence. Many were feared dead in both disasters.

CAUSES
1.       Poor foundation: foundation not strong enough to carry the heavy load of the storey building.
2.       Absence of soil test: before preparing the foundation careful and extensive soil test ought to be carried out to determine the soil type. Different soil has different load bearing capacity.
3.       If the building site was formerly used as waste dump, it could lead to structural breakdown by the time it decomposes.
4.       If there was a wood stump beneath, it could crack the building
5.       Using weak blocks. Some greedy contractors tend to use substandard materials for the project.
6.       Lack of properly reinforced beam and pillars/columns

CAUTION
1.       Consult with the experts before you begin that project
2.       It is good to monitor your project right from scratch
3.       You need a proper orientation
4.       Get the information you need on the go from us

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HOW DO YOU KNOW AN EROSION PRONE AREA DURING DRY SEASON?

Many sand dunes is evidence of erosion area

I write this post in response to the numerous concerns and troubles homeowners get into. When I go through certain areas, I cannot help but imagine why some persons will purchase property where erosion will pursue them later. Some have gone as far ass building in a valley. It is ridiculous and against common sense of reasoning.
In case you want to purchase a land or property you need to watch out for these warning signs.

THE CLEAR SIGNS OF EROSION
1.       Many sand dunes. As you walk along the street where the property is located, look closely at the ground. If you see plenty erosion sand, then that area is often waterlogged. As erosion finds its way home, it carries a lot of sand and debris in its course. When it gets to a flat or depressed plain, all the load is deposited right there.
2.       When there is a hill and the property is at the valley. Please run away from such site for in due time you will have to abandon the building for erosion to hold sway.

Building Collapse: Error leads to terror


Buildings, like all structures, are designed to support certain loads without deforming excessively. The loads are the weights of people and objects, the weight of rain and snow and the pressure of wind--called live loads--and the dead load of the building itself. With buildings of a few floors, strength generally accompanies sufficient rigidity, and the design is mainly that of a roof that will keep the weather out while spanning large open spaces. With tall buildings of many floors, the roof is a minor matter, and the support of the weight of the building itself is the main consideration. Like long bridges, tall buildings are subject to catastrophic collapse.
The causes of building collapse can be classified under general headings to facilitate analysis. These headings are:
  • Bad Design
  • Faulty Construction
  • Foundation Failure
  • Extraordinary Loads
  • Unexpected Failure Modes
  • Combination of Causes
Bad design does not mean only errors of computation, but a failure to take into account the loads the structure will be called upon to carry, erroneous theories, reliance on inaccurate data, ignorance of the effects of repeated or impulsive stresses, and improper choice of materials or misunderstanding of their properties. The engineer is responsible for these failures, which are created at the drawing board.
Faulty construction has been the most important cause of structural failure. The engineer is also at fault here, if inspection has been lax. This includes the use of salty sand to make concrete, the substitution of inferior steel for that specified, bad riveting or even improper tightening torque of nuts, excessive use of the drift pin to make holes line up, bad welds, and other practices well known to the construction worker.

Even an excellently designed and constructed structure will not stand on a bad foundation. Although the structure will carry its loads, the earth beneath it may not. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a famous example of bad foundations, but there are many others. The old armory in St. Paul, Minnesota, sank 20 feet or more into soft clay, but did not collapse. The displacements due to bad foundations may alter the stress distribution significantly. This was such a problem with railway bridges in America that statically-determinate trusses were greatly preferred, since they were not subject to this danger.

Unexpected failure modes are the most complex of the reasons for collapse, and we have recently had a good example. Any new type of structure is subject to unexpected failure, until its properties are well understood. Suspension bridges seemed the answer to bridging large gaps. Everything was supported by a strong cable in tension, a reliable and understood member. However, sad experience showed that the bridge deck was capable of galloping and twisting without restraint from the supporting cables. Ellet's bridge at Wheeling collapsed in the 1840's, and the Tacoma Narrows bridge in the 1940's, from this cause.

The conservative, strong statically-determinate trusses were designed with pin-connected eyebars to be as strong and safe as possible. Sad experience brought the realization of stress concentration at the holes pierced in the eyebars. From earliest times, it has been recognized that tension members have no surprises. They fail by pulling apart when the tension in them becomes too high. If you know the tension, then proportioning a member is easy. A compression member, a column, is different. If it is short and squat, it bears its load until it crushes. But if you try to support a load with a 12-foot column that will just support the load with a 1-foot column, you are in for a surprise. The column bends outward, or buckles, and the load crashes to earth.

Suppose you have a beam supported at the ends, with a load in the center. You know the beam will bend, and if the load is too great, it may break apart at the bottom, or crush at the top, under the load. This you expect. However, the beam may fail by splitting into two beams longitudinally, or shearing, or by the top of the beam deflecting to one side or the other, also called buckling. In fact, a beam will usually fail by shearing or buckling before breaking.

A hollow tube makes a very efficient column or beam. If you think about it, it is the material on the surface that most resists buckling and bending. A column that is modified from a compact cross-section, like a cylinder, to an extended cross-section, like a pipe, can still support the same load per unit area, but with much greater resistance to buckling. As a beam, one side is in compression and the other in tension, while the pipe cannot buckle to one side or the other. When you do bend a pipe, notice that it crushes inward reducing the cross-section to a line, which bends easily. Tubes need to be supported against buckling. Such a tube has a very high ratio of strength to weight, and hence strength to cost.

Tall buildings have generally been made with a rigid steel skeleton, sheathed in the lightest materials to keep out the weather. Alternatively, reinforced concrete, where the compression-resisting and protecting concrete surrounds the tough, tension-resisting steel, integrated into a single body, has been used. Such structures have never failed (when properly built on good foundations), and stoutly resist demolition. When the lower supports of a steel skeleton are destroyed, the weight of the building seems to crush the lower parts and the upper parts descend slowly into the pile of debris. Monolithic reinforced-concrete buildings are diffcult to demolish in any fashion.

The World Trade Center towers used neither a steel skeleton nor reinforced concrete. They were designed as square tubes made of heavy, hollow welded sections, braced against buckling by the building floors. Massive foundations descended to bedrock, since the towers had to be safe against winds and other lateral forces tending to overturn them. All this was taken into consideration in the design and construction, which seems to have been first-rate. An attempt to damage the buildings by a bomb at the base had negligible effect. The strong base and foundation would repel any such assault with ease, as it indeed did. The impact of aircraft on the upper stories had only a local effect, and did not impair the integrity of the buildings, which remained solid. The fires caused weakening of the steel, and some of the floors suddenly received a load for which they were not designed.

What happened next was unexpected and catastrophic. The slumped floors pushed the steel modules outwards, separating them from the floor beams. The next floor then collapsed on the one below, pushing out the steel walls, and this continued, in the same way that a house of cards collapses. The debris of concrete facing and steel modules fell in shower while the main structure collapsed at almost the same rate. In 15 seconds or so, 110 stories were reduced to a pile 9 stories high, mainly of steel wall modules and whatever was around them. The south tower collapsed 47 minutes after impact, the north tower 1 hour 44 minutes after impact. The elapsed times show that the impacts were not the proximate cause of collapse; the strong building easily withstood them. When even one corner of a floor was weakened and fell, the collapse would soon propagate around the circumference, and the building would be lost.
It is clear that buildings built in this manner have a catastrophic mode of failure ("house of cards") that should rule out their future construction. It is triggered when there is a partial collapse at any level that breaks the continuity of the tube, which then rolls up quickly, from top to bottom. The collapse has a means of propagation that soon involves the whole structure, bypassing its major strengths and impossible to interrupt. There is no need for an airliner; a simple explosion would do the job. There were central tubes in the towers, for elevators and services, but they appeared to play no substantial role in the collapse, and were not evident in the pictures or wreckage.

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