STRATEGIES FOR CONTROLLING CRACKS IN RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN KADUNA SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE

The study was designed to find out strategies for controlling cracks in residential building, in Kaduna South Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Among the specific purposes of the study were determining the availability to facilities for controlling cracks in residential building, determine the methods of detecting cracks in residential building, and determining the availability of personnel for detecting cracks in residential building and also the strategies adopted to improve the control of cracks in residenitial building in Kaduna South Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The study adopted description survey research design and the area of the study is Kaduna South Local Government AIrea. The population of the study include 50 respondents made up of 30 building team and 20 engineers.The instruments for data collection a 30 items structured questionnaire designed to elicit responses to the research questions. The instrument was validated by three experts who embellished it in term of both face contact validity while the reliability coefficient of the instrument was established using test re-test which yielded the coefficient of 0.78. Data for the study were personally collected by the researchers and three trained research assistances. While mean statistics was employed to analyze relating to research questions. 1-4 Based on the findings of the studies.The following recommendations were made, government should make provision for controlling cracks in residential building with adequate tools and equipment should be fuilly involved in practical activities, provision for execution should be made, maintenance of workshop crack should be given more attention, guardian and counceling services should be provided in the inspectorate division in the area.