Staff Reporter
Speakers yesterday expressed the view that high-rise buildings in Dhaka city have multiplied the problems fire hazard, electricity, water shortage and equitable distribution of land and other resources.
Fire is an issue not only for high-rise buildings but for many structures in the capital for failing to follow the building code or taking necessary precautions against fire or other disasters, they said while addressing a roundtable at the Jatiya Press Club.
Save the Environment Movement (POBA) and WBB Trust jointly organised the roundtable programme.
Though high rise buildings have certain advantages in accommodating so many people at one place but disadvantages outweigh the benefits significantly. The developers of real estate and building owners have more responsibility than the government to ensure safety to the dwellers by installing state of art equipment, they observed.
They pointed out that demand for electricity and water is increasing fast because of mushrooming of high-rise buildings. These multi-storied buildings are also responsible for ever increasing problem of load shedding and water shortage in Dhaka, they noted.
Among others, Prof Dr AMM Safiullah, Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Abu Naser Khan, Chairman of POBA and Prof Shamsul Wazed, President of Institute of Architect addressed the roundtable.
Courtesy of The New Nation
