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Building Defects In Building Construction

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Nowadays, the construction industry from all around the world is getting modern, innovative and grow day by day. However, the construction industry has faced one issue in the development which is building defects and what solutions can be taken to solve those defects?

What is a defect? According to the business dictionary, defects is about something that cannot fulfill the user’s expectation including the safety aspects. (WebFinance Inc. All Rights Reserved., 2016) Defects can also describe, as something which is not good, imperfect or failing. A defect is a building imperfection or design mistake that reduces the value of the building and sometimes it will lead to a dangerous condition.

Defects can happen due to three major factors which …show more content…

The main purpose of the foundation is to transfer the load from the building to the subsoil beneath. (Duncan Marshall, 2013) The foundation of the building also acts as the support to the superstructure. The load of the building must be equilibrium to the subsoil foundation load bearing capacity. This is because if the load of the building is exceeding the safe bearing capacity of the ground, subsidence will happen. (Cotgrave, 2011)

Foundation defects commonly occurred due to:
1. Unstable condition
• Unstable condition happened because of the inadequate condition of the existing foundation. It happens when the width of the foundation spread spread is not wide enough or the depth if the foundation is not deep enough to support the building load.

• Overloading will also cause the unstable condition. Overloading means additional loads being applied to the foundation. The overloading happens when the extension work being carried out upon the original building or the use of the building has been changed and the imposed loads upon the floors increased.

2. Changing of ground …show more content…

The wall also acts as a protective wall to give environmental protection to the internal areas of the building especially the external wall. The wall is purposed separate area of use.

Wall defects commonly occurred due to:
1. Movement
• The foundation settlement can cause the brick wall settlement. Cracking of wall will happen due to the settlement.
• Thermal movement often results in expansion and contraction of the wall due to variation in temperature. The amount of contraction is not equal to the original expansion and this will cause cracking.

2. Moisture content
• The moisture content such as moist rise from ground which is underground water and moist that penetrate from roof such as rain water. Bricks contain water-soluble salt. So, when the salts react with the water, it will forming solution. Then the solution will evaporate on the wall surface and leaving the salt on the wall which is known as

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