A panel of experts from Buet has ordered immediate evacuation of two factory buildings as those have been identified to be risky upon inspection.

Of the two, one is a garment factory at Malibagh in the capital and another is a four-storey multi-purpose building, which houses a textile unit, in Manikganj, said a member of the panel of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).

The team also recommended four buildings for immediate assessment for strengthening as those have not the risks at the level of immediate evacuation.

The team inspected nearly 150 buildings in Dhaka and its adjacent areas, said Mohammad Mujibur Rahman, head of the panel.

"Most of the buildings have no immediate risks," Rahman, also the head of the Buet's civil engineering department, told The Daily Star by phone.

The team also asked owners to conduct a comprehensive test analysis of the buildings within three to six months to diagnose any major risk, he added.

Overloading was the main reason behind the Rana Plaza collapse, Rahman said.

The Buet team released test results for 102 of 150 inspected buildings, while the rest are still underway, said Sekender Ali, a professor of Buet and a coordinator of the panel.

The panel was formed on April 24 after the nation's most tragic industrial disaster at Rana Plaza in Savar, where 1,132 people died and hundreds were severely injured.

The panel comprising officials of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, Buet and Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association started inspecting the buildings in Dhaka and its adjacent areas on May 2.

"So far, we received nearly 300 applications from garment factories, residential buildings, banks, hospitals and some private institutions for inspection," Alisaid.

According to BGMEA, of the 3,600 garment factories in operation, 60 percent are housed in shared buildings, 20 percent in converted buildings and 20 percent in purpose-made buildings.

In the shared buildings,

there are other offices with the garment units, while converted buildings are residential buildings transformed into factory units. Purpose-made buildings are constructed for garment factories, according to the BGMEA.

The central bank has also instructed commercial banks to assess the risks of the buildings where they have set up their offices, said Helal Ahmed Chowdhury, managing director of Pubali Bank.

Bangladesh Bank also asked the commercial banks to verify the building and safety codes of various business houses before giving them any loan, Chowdhury said.