Daoudabougou : Un immeuble s’effondre sur plusieurs personnes

Poor quality materials or/plus shoddy work cause constructions problems wherever they exist. It seem to be worldwide problem for sake of satisfying greed for wealth. That include United States. Example is during my morning walk I often pass much of construction ongoing here in Detroit, Michigan (USA). I examine materials plus consider their use in Africa. For years I have been paying close attention to sewage pipes. My dad use to work as supervisor for company that made sewage pipes but, then pipes were primarily made of cement. Today plastic or rubber is being used plus seem adequate but I suspect weak point might be in keeping pipes attached. I note that workers doing shoddy work will connect pipes plus insert them into ground but at points for tens of feet pipes do not lay on ground as support base instead they are suspended in air. It do not take genius to see that when earth is poured over those pipes they will be given undue stretching that unnecessarily stress area where pipes connect. Who know in matter of months to years there will be widespread leakage from those pipes eventually necessitating area be dug up plus pipes replaced as result of shoddy work that did not give pipes base support they require to keep stress off connecting points instead pipes receive greater stress by being suspended in air unto earth covering them force them to ground below them but put unnecessary stress on connecting points when doing so. In Mali builders would have been best off to use quality materials plus gave that concrete ample time to dry. Now everything must be done again thereof, increasing cost of building like to excess what it would have been if quality materials had been used from onset. Stupid is what stupid do. We are our brothers' keepers. Africa first people of books. Henry Author Price Jr. aka Kankan