The Zambia Institute of Architects has appealed to the public to engage registered and qualified professional architectures in the construction of buildings at design and inspection stages.
Zambia Institute of Architects President, Bwalya Masabo noted that it is unfortunate that none of their members was involved in the construction of the building that collapsed last week in Libala.
ZANIS reports that Mr Masabo speaking in an interview noted that his Association with other regulatory bodies involved in the construction will collaborate to ascertain the cause of the accident and give recommendations on the way forward.
And Robin M’soni, a lawyer representing the owner of the building noted that after the accident happened last week, a lot of concerns were raised and various regulatory bodies have been on the site to ascertain the cause of the collapse of the building.
Mr. M’son disclosed that so far, the Lusaka City Council have issued an enforcement notice to direct that the entire structure be demolished.
Lusaka City Council is useless.
Sructural Intergrity of buildings is the purview of Engineers and not architects. You should know better
Address the costs involved too, then we’ll be talking about a solution and way forward!
You are blaming the Architects, but who was supervising the builders? Were the structural and Quality Engineers involved from the beginning? In other words who were the Civil Engineers?