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Owner could not care less

He bothered not to take design approval, do proper piling on marshy land

Helemul Alam
The owner of the city's collapsed building that killed at least 23 people on Tuesday, neither took permission for design and construction nor built it with sufficient materials.
Experts and officials concerned said the five-storey building is an example of gross violation of building construction rules.
The building of Abbas Uddin toppled onto three tin-shed houses in the capital's Madhya Begunbari onTuesday night.
The building was not constructed with approved plan and design rather built on marshy land without proper piling, said experts and officials ofRajdhanai Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).
“The building was constructed without taking any permission from Rajuk and we have filed a case against the owner of the building as per the rules," said Chairman of Rajuk Md Nurul Huda.
He said this is one of the 5,000 buildings identified by Rajuk as having been built without its permission and approved plan or design.
“We have already started taking action against those buildings,” said the Rajuk chairman.
Authorised officer-2 of Rajuk Shafiqul Islam said the owner
would not get permission for constructing the building, as there is no road in front of the structure built around 10 years back
When asked whether any notice was issued against owner Abbas Uddin, the official said the building was on the list of demolition for Hatirjheel developmentproject.
Asked why they did not take legal action against the building owner, he said it was built long time back.
Asked whether he meant legal action was not necessary against building owner Abbas Uddin, as the structure was built long time back, he said, “ I will not answer.”
Director development control of Rajuk SK Abdul Mannan said it was “a foundation failure," as the building was built without approved design.
He said they would find out how unauthorised buildings have been constructed in the area, adding that legal action will be taken soon for breaching thelaws.
Project director of Hatirjheel development Lt Colonel Abu Sayeed Md Masud said the owner did not do pilling properly though the soil was not good for the construction.
The owner also did not use required iron rods and take required suggestions from any engineer to construct the building, he said.
The building also was not constructed calculating the load taking capacity and all of these are the main reasons for thecollapse, hesaid.
Habibur Rahman, son of an
owner of a three-storey tin-shed structure adjacent to the building, said Abbas Uddin constructed a two-storey building in 1997 or 1998 first and after about four or five years later he constructed one more storey.
He said for the last six to seven months the owner has been constructing the fourth and fifth storey of the building.
Like this building, 10 to 12 more buildings have also been constructed in the area illegally and are now at risk, said Authorised officer Shafiqul Islam.
Many illegal three-storey tin-shed structures, which were demolished earlier, have been also reconstructed, he said.
The tin-shed structures are not only at high risk of any time collapse but those are at risk of fire, said Rajuk director development control Mannan.
Habib said they have constructed their tin-shed structure at a cost of around Tk 1.50 lakh for giving on rent.
PROBE COMMITTEE
FORMED
Rajuk formed a three-member probe committee headed by its director development control SK Abdul Mannan to find out the reasons of the building collapse.
Other members are authorised officer-1 Aminur Rahman and authorised officer-4 Khalekuzzaman.
The probe committee will discover reasons of collapse, negligence of Rajuk officials and other relevant issues, said chairman of Rajuk Nurul Huda.
He said the committee will submit its report within next seven working days.