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Appearance of Cracks in buildings is one of most critical issue throughout the world. So therefore it ismuch more important to provide proper attention in order to prevent these cracks to reduce the strength of theStructure. Thus cracks appear in concrete with Passage of Time that cannot be entirely prevented. For preventionof these cracks different types of adequate materials, techniques of construction and design criteria is alsoconsidered for cracks prevention. It is dream of every human that his house/home is aesthetically andstructurally safe and sound. But during construction work different types of errors occurred due to unavoidablereasons at sites which lead towards the crack appearance in structure and non-structure parts of buildings withtime to time. It is not important to give attention to all type of cracks but There are different types of cracksappeared in which some are active cracks. So for active cracks proper prevention measurements must be taken inorder to prevent structure failure of Building. The paper mainly focused and describes different type of methods(Direct or indirect) used for prevention of cracks. For this purpose simple as well as instrumental methods use todeal with such type of issues. This Paper also reflect information of how ultimate failure cause due to thesecracks, its reasons and preventive measurements. In this paper it was found that cracks having direct and indirectimpacts on the structure or building. Moreover it was also found that cracks in building cause the problemindirectly due to facilitating the activities which finally cause the structure problems instead of direct way tocause. So this paper concluded that different types of techniques were used for different type of appeared cracksin buildings which depending upon intensity and reason of problem. That’s why the main question was raisedthat why they are produced and how they are examined and controlled?

Muhammad Walayat Khan, Shabbir Ahmad, Fawad Khan, “TO STUDY THE CAUSES, MOVEMENT MEASUREMENT, INVESTIGATING PRINCIPLES AND REMEDIES OF CRACKS IN BUILDINGS: A REVIEW”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 12, pp. 44-52, December 2018.