“…As time passed and technology advanced, man began to use improved materials such as burnt bricks, concrete, steel, reinforced concrete, fibre reinforced concrete and plastics as building construction materials. Generally, conventional building materials such as sandcrete blocks, concrete blocks, burnt bricks, quarry stones, planks, wood products and roofing materials have been used primarily for building houses and other basic aspects of shelter over the years [1]. Sandcrete block is the most adopted concrete masonry unit especially in the building residential, industrial and commercial structures [2] and according to [3], sandcrete blocks account for 90% of residential buildings.…”