Buildings above five years should undergo Integrity Test – LASG

By Kazeem Ugbodaga

The Lagos State Government says buildings above five years in the state should undergo integrity test to determine their structural stability.

This is coming as the officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA sealed up a building owned by the landlord whose two-storey building collapsed on Sunday in Alagbado area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

General Manager, LASBCA, Engr. Olalekan Shodeinde told newsmen in Lagos on Monday that buildings above five years were expected to carry out integrity test to see if there were any defects.

He also said that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has ordered post-construction audit of all buildings in the state in order to avert rising cases of building collapse and mandated the agency to extend its activities towards that area.

Shodeinde explained that the post-construction audit…