Engineering company formerly working on collapsed Ikoyi building withdrew its consultancy service a year ago because it couldn’t guarantee the integrity of the building

Prowess Engineering Limited, the company that began the construction of the Gerrard terrace building which collapsed in Ikoyi, Lagos, withdrew from the project in February 2020.

A letter written by Prowess Engineering Limited to Fourscore Heights Limited shows that the engineering company withdrew from the Gerrard Terraces project in February 2020, on grounds that it no longer shared the same vision with its client.

Prowess Engineering Limited said it can guarantee the integrity of the first two building it constructed for Fourscore Heights Limited, but it couldn’t guarantee the integrity of the third building from anything above the fourth floor.

The third building is what ended up collapsing today, November 1.

The letter Prowess Engineering Limited wrote withdrawing its service reads: “This letter is to formally inform you of the withdraw of our structural consultancy service from the above named project. We arrived at this decision due to the fact that we no…