FG to Prosecute Offenders of Building Collapse and Your role as the Client.
Over the weekend, due to the increasing menace of building collapse, the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, has come strong against the perpetrators of the ugly incidents in the country, saying that henceforth offenders (as in builders, contractors, architects involved) would be prosecuted. (Source: The Sun)
Where do you as a client come in?
You ensure that registered professionals design and handle the construction of your building projects.
You might consider working with professionals expensive, but it is more expensive to deal with a building collapse in the long run.
Read Also: Sustainable Building Practices in Nigeria.
One of the benefits of hiring a professional architect for supervising your building construction is to control or monitor payments and claims to contractors based on performance, quality standards, and project progress, thereby preventing clients from being cheated. Source: Bernama.
This simply means that a supervising architect, evaluates the works the contractor is doing on your site, ensures quality, then looks at the payments and claims the contractor is demanding you the client to pay him to be sure the amount of work the contractor is demanding payment for was done satisfactorily before you the client pays the contractor.
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