Building panel crack
The six pictures on the Dhaka deluge, published on 29 July, by the photo-reporters of a local English daily reflect Dhaka city and its miseries due to the recent torrential rains, breaking a 53 year old rainfall record, as reported! Five of the photographs represented the usual misery of Dhaka inhabitants. However the sixth picture-- the middle one in the bottom row of photographs-- was a critical one! It showed the misery of a building, with cracks in its decorative vertical panels. It is the Institute of Glass & Ceramic. The misery was not due to rains, but caused by human shortcomings!
Was it due to human error in the design or construction of the structure, or was it deliberate, done by the supervising government official's connivance with the building contractor? No longitudinal bars were visible in the photographs. Was it not provided? Or was the foundation of the building deliberately built below specifications; and not as per the drawings provided? One wonders what is the mystery behind these cracks! An investigation should clear the matter.
Hopefully, it has attracted the attention of the relevant government authorities and the matter will be investigated, the earlier the better. Would knowledgeable interested readers kindly give their views on the matter?
I would also request you to please follow up the matter with detailed and background investigative reporting as a matter of public interest. I am fairly confident that possibly something has gone seriously wrong somewhere; starting from soil investigation and tests, prior to the building design-- right down to completion of the structure. This should not normally happen to a building some three to four decades old!
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