Staff Reporter :
Experts from home and abroad in a seminar have laid emphasis on making the country’s vulnerable public and private buildings tremor resilience. To do it, they have advised on the use of earthquake resistant structures.
The Public Works Department (PWD) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) jointly organised the seminar in a city hotel on Saturday.
Housing and Public Works Secretary Md Golam Rabbani presided at the seminar where Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, Minister for Housing, was the chief guest.
Chief Representative of JICA Bangladesh Office Mikio Hataeda and the PWD Chief Engineer Kabir Ahmed Bhuiyan,
among others, delivered their lectures. During their visit to various construction sites and existing buildings, the international experts expressed their concern over vulnerability of the buildings and poor construction technique. The major concern is there are limited seismic design considerations especially on masonry buildings.
They suggested that the architects and the structural engineers should work together and enforce the national building code, BNBC.
Eng Mosharraf Hossain said that the implementation of the national building code was hardly found. The minister, however, said that his ministry had taken a decision to enforce the relevant agencies to follow the building code in future construction.
JICA Bangladesh Chief said, JICA is considering to extend its support to provide modern building technology to Bangladesh through technology transfer and providing soft loan.
Additional Chief Engineer and Project Director of PWD and CNCRP Abdul Malek Sikder said, the retrofitting technology is the way to make Dhaka earthquake resistant where many of the buildings are vulnerable to earthquake. “First of all, we are targeting vulnerable fire stations and hospitals”, he said.
Under the project of PWD and JICA (from 2011 to 2015), local engineers, with the support of Japanese experts have already started working to retrofit the Tejgaon Fire Station as pilot basis, added he.
The local engineers have received training on different techniques of retrofitting technology from a team of JICA experts, he said.
Experts from home and abroad in a seminar have laid emphasis on making the country’s vulnerable public and private buildings tremor resilience. To do it, they have advised on the use of earthquake resistant structures.
The Public Works Department (PWD) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) jointly organised the seminar in a city hotel on Saturday.
Housing and Public Works Secretary Md Golam Rabbani presided at the seminar where Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, Minister for Housing, was the chief guest.
Chief Representative of JICA Bangladesh Office Mikio Hataeda and the PWD Chief Engineer Kabir Ahmed Bhuiyan,
among others, delivered their lectures. During their visit to various construction sites and existing buildings, the international experts expressed their concern over vulnerability of the buildings and poor construction technique. The major concern is there are limited seismic design considerations especially on masonry buildings.
They suggested that the architects and the structural engineers should work together and enforce the national building code, BNBC.
Eng Mosharraf Hossain said that the implementation of the national building code was hardly found. The minister, however, said that his ministry had taken a decision to enforce the relevant agencies to follow the building code in future construction.
JICA Bangladesh Chief said, JICA is considering to extend its support to provide modern building technology to Bangladesh through technology transfer and providing soft loan.
Additional Chief Engineer and Project Director of PWD and CNCRP Abdul Malek Sikder said, the retrofitting technology is the way to make Dhaka earthquake resistant where many of the buildings are vulnerable to earthquake. “First of all, we are targeting vulnerable fire stations and hospitals”, he said.
Under the project of PWD and JICA (from 2011 to 2015), local engineers, with the support of Japanese experts have already started working to retrofit the Tejgaon Fire Station as pilot basis, added he.
The local engineers have received training on different techniques of retrofitting technology from a team of JICA experts, he said.
