Asghar Siddiqui
Building safety is of supreme importance.The issue of building safety especially in high rise buildings is Power Distribution System. If some measures are kept in mind like proper service shafts, usage of fire barriers , distribution of power and allocation of services while designing a building then we can avoid catastrophes like fire breakout and its propagation in buildings.
Generally there are less fire breakouts in corporate building compared to general building by developers. Why? For example: if there is a mall or an office building which is a multi tenants building, the work of the consultant is to design the infrastructure and to terminate all the services at door step of tenant and generally there are no qualified people involved in all the work done after that point specially in retail shop or an office. Although the infrastructure is strong, but inside the premises the work done is not up to the mark which leads to problems.