UNDERSTANDING BUILDING CRACKS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND WHY YOU NEED TO HIRE PROFESSIONALS.
By David Maclaren KIIZA When you traverse urban setups in Uganda particularly, one would realize that in almost every building; whether very old over 30years or new less than 5 years; cracks are evident.it still beats my understanding as to why buildings constructed before 1962 Uganda independence and early 1970’s barely have cracks unless the structured has or is being tampered with due to remodeling Nyakasura School Administration block (left) built in the late 1920’s and Dining Hall (right) built in the 1960’s Talking to Raymond Banyanga a RICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor with JR Consultants and Eng Sabil Ismael Byaruhanga a Consultant with Ground Control Engineering and Construction Ltd; the two all agreed that Cracks in a building are of common occurrence because a building component develops cracks whenever stress in the component exceeds its strength hence are classified in to structural and non structural categories. The structural ones include faulty design, fault