General Building Defects: Causes, Symptoms and Remedial Work

Building defect is one of the major components of building problems that significantly needed attention. When a building fails to function as it should, we must immediately seek for the determination. Is the problem taking place as the result of the worker's failure to assemble it properly? Is it involving the nature of it? Is the proper maintenance of the building not been performed as it should have been? The answers often depend upon a number of factors: the age of the affected building components, the exact nature of the problem, the presence or absence of human error, or some combination of all those three. This paper will review and discuss some of the major building defects happen throughout the world. It contains some of the main concepts and the definition of the terminological terms used. In addition, the causes, symptoms and remedial work of defect also been discussed in this paper.