Collapsed construction site still at risk
(Left) Sand being dumped at the portion where the Circuit House road collapsed on Monday. (Right) The construction site lacking adequate safety precautions puts the adjoning structures at the risk of collapse in the city's Purana Paltan. The photos were taken yesterday. Photo: Rashed Shumon
The city's Circuit House road, part of which collapsed into an adjoining construction pit Monday, could not open for vehicles yesterday, as the risk of further damage did not completely go away. "We have been working to make the site totally risk free by dumping sand bags and taking some other measures. It may take one or two more days to entirely free it from risks", Sheikh Abdul Mannan, member planning of Rajuk, said. He said vehicular movement will start on the road gradually. Around 8:00am Monday, several cracks developed on the road, which has the construction site on one side and the office of the deputy commissioner (traffic south) on the other. Two hours after digging began in the pit, the concrete pillars of the road protection piling collapsed damaging four feet of the 24-foot-wide road. On the evening the same day, the boundary wall of an adjoining building also collapsed, leading police to block off the road immediately. "We have been doing everything following the instruction of Rajuk to prevent further damage and to make it risk free", Eng Manzur Ahmed, involved in the construction work, said. He said there are leakages in the Wasa water pipe, which made the piling weaker and caused the damage. "We will continue our safety work following the guidelines of Rajuk". On Monday night, the Rajuk (Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha) filed a case against the owner and other persons involved in the supervision of the construction site. "We sued them because of their negligence of taking proper safety measures in line with Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC)", Rajuk official Abdul Mannan said.
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