The consultancy company in charge of ascertaining the structural integrity of the 21-storey apartment building which collapsed on Monday pulled out of the project over one year ago.
According to a letter obtained by Franktalknow, Prowess Engineering Limited, the building’s structural engineers, withdrew from the project, saying that they would not be held responsible for “any construction errors that may have occurred over time on the project”.
The company had been in charge of the three buildings, of which the collapsed building around Gerard Road, Ikoyi, was part. According to the letter dated 20 February 2020, the structural engineering firm had informed Fourscore Heights that they no longer shared the “same vision” on how the project was being developed.
Prowess Engineering had said that while the first two projects were well supervised, the third building was only guaranteed to be safe up to the fourth floor, in terms of concrete strength.
The letter read in part, “This letter is to formally inform you of the withdrawal of our structural consultancy service from the above-named project. We arrived at this decision due to the fact that we no longer share same vision with you as our client in terms of how the project is being executed.
“We can guarantee the integrity of the first two buildings and also works done up to the fourth floor of the third building supervised by us provided specifications have been met in terms of the required concrete strength.
“This we do not have control over as we do not have the concrete cube test results for each stage of the building till date, Also, kindly note that we are not taking responsibilities for any other construction errors that may have occurred over time on the project.
“Furthermore, we request that our company’s name and logo be removed from the project board and also kindly notify all necessary approving authorities of our withdrawal from the project.”
At least four bodies have been recovered from the scene of the incident building. Also, four persons are said to have been rescued alive.
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