Ministry of Housing and Public Works formed a steering committee with the responsibility of Updating BNBC 1993 by a G.O. having circular no. Section 8/IM-5/93(part) 812 (28) date: 15.09.2008. The Housing and Building Research Institute (HBRI) has been entrusted with the task of providing secretarial service to the steering committee and managing the implementation of the project. In response to the Request for Propsal (RFP) from HBRI, Bureau of Research, Testing and Consultation (BRTC) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) submitted Technical and Financial proposals for updating the code. Consequently an agreement was signed between HBRI and BRTC on the
15th of December, 2009 giving the task of updating the Code to BRTC, BUET. According to the TOR of the agreement the major tasks assigned to BRTC are;
•Review and Update of BNBC 1993
•Review and Update of the Building Construction Act 1952 and the Administrative Arrangement and Implementing Provisions of it
A team of experts consisting of 33 Professionals from various disciplines (27 from BUET and 6 from outside) were gathered for updating the code. For management and co-ordination of the work, a team leader and a coordinator has been assigned from among the consultants. It is to be remembered that the present version of the BNBC was prepared in 1993. Since then major changes have taken place in every discipline of the Building technology. To make the Updated code time worthy and at par with the codes of both the neighboring and developed countries, the codes and other related documents have been collected from these countries. These documents, including books, journals, manuals, research reports etc. available in the libraries of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) have been preliminarily reviewed by the consultants to identify changes / modifications of BNBC 1993. The preliminary reviews and suggestions and the tentative table of contents proposed for the Updated BNBC have been presented in the inception report. The process of collection and review of documents will continue along with inclusion of the findings of the review in the updated code at different stages of its preparation till finalization
you can also known ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
2010 Steering committee
2010 Editorial Board
2010 Consultant Team
BNBC 2010
Inception Report
BNBC 1993
all details visit
http://buildingcode.gov.bd/[/b][/i]
