{"id":89973,"date":"2021-12-16T18:43:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=89973"},"modified":"2021-12-16T18:43:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:43:45","slug":"how-fourscore-altered-4-storey-to-21-storey-building-structural-engineer-tells-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/how-fourscore-altered-4-storey-to-21-storey-building-structural-engineer-tells-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fourscore Altered 4-Storey To 21-Storey Building \u2014 Structural Engineer Tells Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1719324383903173683\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Structural Engineer, Mr. Muritala Olawale, has narrated how Fourscore Heights altered a four-storey building plan to 21-storey building which collapsed on Nov. 1 at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>\u00a0Olawale, Managing Director of Prowess Engineering, made the revelation while responding to questions from Mr. Akin George, counsel for Lagos State Government.<\/p>\n<p>According to Olawale\u2019s statement on oath to the inquest, the late Mr. Femi Osibona, Managing Director of Fourscore Heights Limited, had in November 2018 briefed his team that he wanted to build four-storey buildings of three blocks at Gerard Road, Ikoyi Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that while working on the design, Osibona reversed the brief to three blocks of 14-floors (ground plus 13 suspended floors).<\/p>\n<p>Questioning the witness, George said \u201cin paragraph 20 of your Witness Statement on Oath, you said and I quote \u201cConstruction works on the three blocks commenced simultaneously with piling works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn conclusion of the piling works, Pile Integrity Test (PIT) carried out on the piles showed failure in 23 of the piles installed and we recommended that the failed piles be replaced.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Olawale, which of the blocks were you complaining about\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Responding Olawale answered, \u201cmy complaint was on Block B, the collapsed building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The witness said that in the course of replacing the failed piles, Osibona requested that Block B be re-designed to 18 floors (ground plus 17 suspended floors) and his team received a reversed architectural drawing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we redesigned the building to 18-floors I was told by Osibona that he took the design to the government for approval but I did not see the approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe architects of the building site were Urban Prime Architects,\u201d Olawale said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Structural Engineer, Mr. Muritala Olawale, has narrated how Fourscore Heights altered a four-storey building plan to 21-storey building which collapsed on Nov. 1 at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. \u00a0Olawale,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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