STRATEGIES FOR MINIMIZING BUILDING COLLAPSE IN EBONYI STATE

By C. L. Mbachu, P. N. Opara, E. I. Egba, E. N. Elom & C. S. Igwe

Abstract: The study was designed to find out the strategies for minimizing building collapse in Ebonyi State. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study comprised of 160 government agencies and building professionals in Ebonyi State and was subjected to purposive sampling in which 90 respondents were drawn. A 31-item structured questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection. The instrument was subjected to face validation by three experts. Cronbach Alpha was used to establish the internal consistency of the instrument which yielded a reliability value of 0.71. Data collected were analysed using mean and standard deviation for the research questions at acceptance value of 2.50 while t-test was used for the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the data analysis revealed that 31 strategies could minimize building collapse. There was no statically significant difference in the mean responses of the respondents in any sections on how to minimize building collapse in Ebonyi State. It was recommended that government agencies and professional organizations should champion the awareness campaign, especially among the private clients through different public programs as this would increase the knowledge level of the clients and desirability to demand sustainable building construction projects.
Keywords: Building Collapse, Minimizing, Strategies, Building professionals and Government