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Technical Disaster

Related, an industrial accident is a disaster type term used to describe technological accidents of an industrial nature involving industrial buildings. It comprises a number of disaster subsets: chemical spill/leak, explosions, collapses, gas leaks, etc. It is also used to describe technological transport accidents involving mechanized modes of transport. source: CRED

 IRIN http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97987/Analysis-Wake-up-call-for-Bangladesh-s-building-industry

Analysis: 'Wake up call' for Bangladesh’s building industry

6 May 2013, IRIN

'Design needs to be more rigorous, especially these days,' Bashirul Haq, an architect in Dhaka who recently served on a government committee revising the building code, referring to the country’s high risk to natural disasters, as well as the steady pace of factory construction in cities...


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