Electrical safety assessment according to Bangladesh national building code (BNBC)

Abstract

Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) provides a complete guideline on every aspect for a building in Bangladesh. ‘The Electrical and electronics services for buildings’ section presents specific electrical safety regulations, the violation of which can lead to severe damage to both human lives and the electronic equipment in a building. The main objective of this thesis is to prepare and present an assessment tool using the safety regulation points extracted from ‘The Electrical and electronics services for buildings’ section. This work divides all the safety regulation points into two distinct sectors: Risk to Health and Risk to electrical equipment, and assigns numbers to each point based on the level of threat its violation possesses in both sectors. The points, along with their assigned numbers are then presented in a tabular form which can be used to gain statistical data on the safety of a building from an electrical and electronic standpoint.