About the danger of buildings in Cyprus, warns the Cyprus Association of Civil Engineers (CPCO), on the occasion of the recent collapse of a balcony of an apartment building in Paphos, built in the 1970s, and the serious injury of three people.
As SPOLMIK notes in a statement, the causes that can lead to collapse or failure can be the use of inferior quality materials, incomplete and/or incorrect specifications, incorrect or incomplete design and/or supervision, weakening of parts of the building due to man-made uncontrolled interventions, reduction in the strength of the load-bearing elements of the building due to insufficient maintenance and/or exposure to the elements of nature (water, wind, earthquake).
"All these and more and especially the non-existent culture of building maintenance can lead to local or total collapse of a building", SPOLMIK points out, reiterating its concern for the structural adequacy and safety of buildings, especially old buildings in Cyprus.
Finally, it calls on the State to proceed as soon as possible with the Legislative regulation of the Regular Inspection of buildings and the issuance of the relevant Certificate, as a preventive measure to avoid catastrophic events.
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