Category Archives: Construction Failure

Thesis/ Report

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  • Updated Bangladesh National Building Code – BNBC (Part-4)

Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) was first drafted in 1993 but not formally reviewed and updated. Since then, major changes have taken place in every discipline of the Building technology. To make this code time worthy, Ministry of Housing and Public Works formed a steering committee with the responsibility of Updating BNBC 1993 by a G.O. having circular no. Section 8/IM-5/93(part) 812 (28) date:15.09.2008. The Housing and Building Research Institute (HBRI) has been entrusted with thetask of providing secretarial service to the steering committee and managing the implementation of the project. In response to the Request for Proposal (RFP) from HBRI,Bureau of Research, Testing and Consultation (BRTC) of Bangladesh University ofEngineering and Technology (BUET) submitted Technical and Financial proposals for updating the code. Consequently an agreement was signed between HBRI and BRTC on the15th of December, 2009 giving the task of updating the Code to BRTC, BUET. In this regard, An Inception Report to update the BNBC has already been approved by the concerned authority.

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Report with Recommendations for Updated BNBC Part 4

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  •  Tilted Demra building being demolished-the Daily Star

Owner of the three-storey residential building, that tilted early Monday in Demra on the outskirts of the capital, started demolishing it yesterday.
The building on Madrasah Road at Purba Hajinagar leaned on an adjoining six-storey building at midnight prompting Narayanganj district administration to evacuate immediately six families residing in the building.
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Tilted Demra building being demolished-the Daily Star

 

  • Savar Building Collapse : Germany to provide 2.5m Euros for job reintegration-The Daily Star

As a part of its long-term engagement in the garment sector of Bangladesh, the German government will provide 2.5 million Euros for a project giving job reintegration support to those who have become disabled in the collapse of the nine-storey Rana Plaza in Savar

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Savar Building Collapse : Germany to provide 2.5m Euros for job reintegration-The Daily Star

  •  Savar Building Collapse : Victims
    Indian, German govts offer rehab help -The Daily Star

The Indian and German governments yesterday offered assistance to rehabilitate the Savar building collapse victims to help the disabled persons regain their mobility, enabling them to lead a life in dignity and again work for their living.

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Savar Building Collapse : Victims Indian, German govts offer rehab help -The Daily Star

  • Stop use of residential buildings for industries-The Daily Star

Deadly building collapses may recur unless the government immediately identifies and stops the illegal use of residential buildings for readymade garments factories and other industries, leading civil engineers said at a discussion yesterday.

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Stop use of residential buildings for industries-The Daily Star

  • US wants rapid progress on building safety issue-The Daily Sun

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged rapid progress both on fire and building safety inspection issues in Bangladesh and on quick passage of labour law amendments.

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US wants rapid progress on building safety issue-The Daily Sun

  • অভিজ্ঞতাকে কাজে লাগাতে হবে

সাভারের ভবনধসের ১৭ দিন পর একজনকে জীবিত উদ্ধার করার ঘটনাটি এক কথায় অসাধারণ। এটা আমাদের উদ্ধার-প্রক্রিয়ার একটি সফলতা হিসেবেই দেখতে হবে। অন্যদিকে মৃতের সংখ্যা হাজার অতিক্রম করাটাও খুব দুঃখজনক। মৃতের সংখ্যার বিবেচনায় এটা বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে ভয়াবহতম দুর্ঘটনা। আমাদের এখনই এমনভাবে কাজ শুরু করতে হবে, যাতে ভবিষ্যতে এ ধরনের দুর্ঘটনা আর না ঘটে। তবে দুর্ঘটনা যদি ঘটে যায়ও, তাহলে কীভাবে সবচেয়ে বেশিসংখ্যক মানুষকে নিরাপদে উদ্ধার করা যায়, তা নিয়ে নতুনভাবে চিন্তা করার আছে।

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অভিজ্ঞতাকে কাজে লাগাতে হবে

  • বালু উত্তোলনে হুমকির মুখে বৃটিশ আমলের সেতু

ঠাকুরগাঁওয়ে নির্মাণাধীন জেলা সার্ভার স্টেশনের মাটি ভরাট করার জন্য শহরের টাংগন নদীর উপর শত বছরের পুরাতন লোহার ব্রীজের নিচ থেকে ড্রেজিং মেশিন দিয়ে বালু তোলা হচ্ছে। এতে হুমকির মুখে পড়েছে সেতুটি।

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বালু উত্তোলনে হুমকির মুখে বৃটিশ আমলের সেতু

Editorial or Newspaper Article

Construction Failure
  •  Are 90% of our buildings unsafe?-The Daily Star

THE Savar disaster on April 24 has engulfed the people of this country with both grief and panic. We are very much together with those who have lost their beloved ones in the disaster. We are panicked that this is not the end. There may be more forthcoming, and might be with more severity. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on April 25 that 90% of our buildings have been constructed without following the building code.

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 Are 90% of our buildings unsafe?-The Daily Star
  •  Building collapse: Accountability in question

We, who are involved in the disaster management programme, often feel proud to be a global leader in disaster preparedness. However, when incidents like Rana Plaza take place, we ask how ready is our country to face natural and manmade disasters?

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 Building collapse: Accountability in question
  •  The darker side-The Daily Star

EXACTLY one day before the Rana Plaza on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital crumbled last Wednesday, press reports in Britain noted that Primark, a leading retailer of cut-price attire, had recorded a 24 per cent increase in sales in the six months to March, its revenue jumping to 2 billion pounds (US$3.11 billion) and operating profits leaping by 56 per cent to 238 million pounds.  Not a bad result, particularly amid an economic downturn. In the same period, Primark opened 15 new stores across Western Europe. Fantabulous. How does it do it?

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 The darker side-The Daily Star
  • Accidents or murders?-The Daily Star

Today is May Day, International Workers Day. This year May Day is being observed in Bangladesh at a very crucial, vulnerable and emotional time. More than 300 of our labourer brothers and sisters died when a garments factory collapsed in Savar on April 24.

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Accidents or murders?-The Daily Star

  • Holocaust in Savar-The Daily Star

The sheer scale of the disaster in Savar makes it the culminating point of the multiple tragedies that have occurred over the quarter-century since Bangladesh rose to prominence in the global apparel industry. The sheer waste of human life, whether by building collapse, fires or explosions, is a damning indictment of a “development” that has brought so much avoidable misery to the innocent, those who ask only for a secure livelihood. It also shows up the indifference to the workers of those responsible for overseeing basic safety and security. It illuminates the single-minded greed of those who ordered people to continue working in a structure already known to be on the point of collapse.

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Holocaust in Savar-The Daily Star

  • Death plazas – the Daily Star

WHAT Shahbagh Chattar could not do in sixty days, Rana Plaza accomplished in sixty seconds: put Bangladesh on the front page of every newspaper of the world. Tragedies startle us and make us pause, and Rana Plaza might just make us pause for a long time.

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 Death plazas – the Daily Star

 

Journal / Seminar Paper

Construction Failure
  • PROMOTING SAFER BUILDING CONSTRUCTION – Author: V. Suresh, former CMD, HUDCO, India and Human Settlements Specialist\

Abstract
The maximum loss to life and property in the Asian Region, due to frequent occurrence of natural disasters, dictates the need for the evolution of safer habitat, which can respond and resist the loads, forces and effects due to the natural disasters. This becomes imperative in the context of huge socio- economic loss to nations. Therefore, all efforts are to be promoted and nurtured for safer building construction to take care of normal loads and forces and the effects of natural disasters.

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