High rise buildings in India -are they safe?
The present trend inbuilding tall buildings has increased .Probable causes may be space constraint in high end areas where land cost is prohibitive and it us a fashion for the rich and influential to live .
Most of the middle class resort to buying flats due to cost .flats are readily affordable and bank loans serve the purpose .For many single floor independent houses are unthinkable .
The building standards are very poor in b grade cities and right from the first year there are water seepages ,leaks in major plumbing and faulty electrical wirings by the builder .In 10 years they look dilapidated with cracks and peeled paintings ,leakages ,wetting and non functioning lifts .
The cause is the builder who resorts to usage of non standard materials,electrical and plumbing and lifts.
He will quietly skip fire safety though obtains a certificate by back door methods .
He builds extra floors with out approval from authorities and sells it and hopes to regularise it by bribing civic officials .
Non residential buildings are used for office space but mostly get converted to hospitals ,malls ,hotels by modifying the plan and hence gets make overs to suit the need.There are no safety measures .cellars are dug two floors deep ,subsoil water seeps in to the basement ,No fire exit stairs ,No hydrants ,no fire or smoke alarms and no trained security in such buildings .
Adhocism in building and maintaining .There are no plumbing and electrical plans along with building plans which results in choas in emergencies .
Once a calamity strikes every one is ready to blame the government and Civic authorities .
In India fire safety ,accident safety are very poor.
Time to regulate the rules of approval .Lest the pleasure of living in tall rise buildings proves short lived .Only bank loans remains for poor middle class's.
If you have space better to expand horizontally with one plus two floors .other wise your investment in high rises may be a night mare ! more
Most of the middle class resort to buying flats due to cost .flats are readily affordable and bank loans serve the purpose .For many single floor independent houses are unthinkable .
The building standards are very poor in b grade cities and right from the first year there are water seepages ,leaks in major plumbing and faulty electrical wirings by the builder .In 10 years they look dilapidated with cracks and peeled paintings ,leakages ,wetting and non functioning lifts .
The cause is the builder who resorts to usage of non standard materials,electrical and plumbing and lifts.
He will quietly skip fire safety though obtains a certificate by back door methods .
He builds extra floors with out approval from authorities and sells it and hopes to regularise it by bribing civic officials .
Non residential buildings are used for office space but mostly get converted to hospitals ,malls ,hotels by modifying the plan and hence gets make overs to suit the need.There are no safety measures .cellars are dug two floors deep ,subsoil water seeps in to the basement ,No fire exit stairs ,No hydrants ,no fire or smoke alarms and no trained security in such buildings .
Adhocism in building and maintaining .There are no plumbing and electrical plans along with building plans which results in choas in emergencies .
Once a calamity strikes every one is ready to blame the government and Civic authorities .
In India fire safety ,accident safety are very poor.
Time to regulate the rules of approval .Lest the pleasure of living in tall rise buildings proves short lived .Only bank loans remains for poor middle class's.
If you have space better to expand horizontally with one plus two floors .other wise your investment in high rises may be a night mare ! more
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RULES AND REGULATIONS ARE STRONG.ONLY THE DEVIATION AND VALIDATING THEM BY EXECUTIVE ORDER IS THE ISSUE.WE LACK IN STRONG ADMINISTRATION.-VGK more
Oct 25
It is high time that the Government should frame rules as regards standards of construction and iner-relations and problems of flat holders more
Oct 25
Having multistoried apartments or building in a country like India tht ha no dearth of land, leads to all sort of law and order issues coupled with higher demand on electricity too much secondary population and so on resulting in chaos and finally incidents like conflagration in these buildings and shortage of water. This is on account of both desire to create only mega cities and also much corruption in sanction of building plans and construction of additional infrastructure every few years to accommodate the rising population in x sq mile of land area. One plus 2 should be maximum height and front and side margin should be 1/2 of the height of building on front and 1/4th on sides if we want to make our entire country livable and citizen to get employment with reduction in travel within city leading to reduction in pollution too. more
Oct 19
When there is so much of Political Corruption in every dphrre of common citizens' lives , we need an Iron Man like Saradar Patel to straighten the corrupt guys as the current lot of Politicians of all parties have their own agenda to meet leaving aside the Natoonal Thenes all togather .... What you think can we expect more
Oct 19
