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The Government has called on the Ghana Institute of Architects (GIA) to collaborate with the Ministry of Works and Housing in providing designs and construction methods to help reduce the cost of construction. The Government is also calling on the Colleges of Art and the built environment and the School…

The Leadership of Traders Advocacy Group Ghana (TAGG) has paid a courtesy call on the Director General of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), and discussed issues bothering on conformity standards. The delegation, led by the National President of TAGG, Mr David Kwadwo Amoateng, in the discussions indicated that the visit…

+ President Akufo-Addo on Thursday asked the Engineering Council of the Ministry of Works and Housing to conduct a comprehensive integrity audit of all public buildings to enable government to effectively plan for earthquakes and other natural disasters. He has also urged the Ghana Geological Survey Authority to give government the needed advice on its logistical needs and equipment to undertake round the clock monitoring of seismic activities for urgent action. The President made the call in A...

  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday asked the Engineering Council of the Ministry of Works and Housing to conduct a comprehensive integrity audit of all public buildings to enable government to effectively plan for earthquakes and other natural disasters. He has also urged the Ghana Geological Survey Authority to give government the needed advice on its logistical needs and equipment to undertake round the clock monitoring of seismic activities for urgent action. The Presiden...

  Ghana must position itself through enforcement of its own codes and standards to deal with any destructive earthquake strike in the future in order not to be taken by surprise. Accra, the nation’s capital lies on a fault-line and there is regular seismic activity in the country. The combined effect of rapid development, industrialization, building of houses and roads, vehicular movement and even fufu pounding amongst others is leading to the grounds beneath us moving very rapidly. This has...

Graphic Online BY: Kester Aburam Korankye 705 A former Head of the Seismology & Earthquake Engineering Division at the Ghana Geological Survey Authority, Dr Sylvanus Tetteh Ahulu, has called for strict enforcement of Ghana’s codes and standards on buildings to minimise the destruction that may be caused by a future earthquake in Accra. He said earthquakes, by themselves, might not cause deaths, but weak structures that could not stand the resulting strength of the vigorous shakes could lead ...

Dr. Sylvanus Tetteh Ahulu, an Associate of MaxConsolidated Lawyers and Architects and also former Head of Seismology Earthquake Engineering Division at the Ghana Geological Survey Authority, said Ghana must position itself through enforcement of its own codes and standards to deal with any destructive earthquake strike in the future in order not to be taken by surprise.

A Ghanaian Expert Engineer, Dr. Sylvanus Tetteh Ahulu, is cautioning against yet another earthquake.