Comply with building code to cut quake risks: Experts
Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) should be followed in constructing any building to reduce risks during earthquake, experts told a seminar yesterday.
Some 72,316 buildings in the city would be damaged completely and 53,166 partially if a 7.5-magnitude earthquake originates from Madhupur Fault, said ASM Maksud Kamal of Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP).
He said this in his power point presentation at the seminar titled "Earthquake and tsunami: perspective Bangladesh" organised jointly by Poribesh Bachao Andolan (Poba) and Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) at BIP auditorium in the city yesterday.
Prof Maksud also said economic loss would stand at about US$ 1,112 million for only structural damages caused by the earthquake.
Emphasising the need for open space, Prof Maksud said 1.85 lakh people would be homeless in the earthquake's wake, of whom only 65,000 can be sheltered in 13 open spaces in the city.
Buet's former vice-chancellor MM Safiullah, Poba chairman Abu Naser Khan, and BIP president Prof Golam Rahman and general secretary AKM Abul Kalam addressed the seminar among others.
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