The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) yesterday blamed the deployment of non-professionals as one of the main causes of the incessant building collapses throughout the country.
In a communiqué at the end of the meeting of presidents of some regulatory and professional bodies in the built environment held in Abuja, the council also fingered the use of substandard materials for the problems in the sector.
National President of COREN, Ali Rabiu, who read the resolutions of the organisation, stated that the domestication of the national building code has also contributed to the challenge.
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