New regulatory authority to be formed to tackle fire incidents in buildings: Salman

Business Report :
A new regulatory authority will be formed as per the Bangladesh National Building Code Act to bring order in building infrastructure for preventing fire hazards, Salman F Rahman, private industry and investment adviser to the prime minister, said Saturday.
“A regulatory authority will be created according to the act. I will try to do it soon. Once that is done, we can do fire prevention works through this authority,” he said while speaking as the chief guest in the inaugural ceremony of the 9th International Fire Safety and Security Expo at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in Dhaka.
Previously, the government had published Bangladesh National Building Code 2020 in the form of a gazette.
The building code will be implemented by the Bangladesh Building Regulatory Authority (BBRA), comprising five members – a planner, an architect, an engineer, a judge or a lawyer, and a civil servant, each of whom would require 30-year work experience in the respective fields.
The members will be appointed by the government, with one of them as chairman. Each member will serve for three years.
At the event, Salman F Rahman expressed hopes that the current situation [concerning building fires] would improve if all design approvals and construction works were supervised by the BBRA.