Identifying the causes of the barriers that prevent fire safety projects from being installed: evidence from Nirvana Engineering Solution Limited

Abstract

In Bangladesh one of the most hazardous incidents is fire incidents. Bangladesh faces more than 110,000 fire incidents and lots of damages which are not recoverable. Thousands of people were injured badly and lots of people killed in those destructive incidents. All these destructive incidents are unable to make people aware about the dangerous impact of fire. Still people show negligence to fire safety system solutions. There are some reasons for this negligence. General peoples' first concern is cost. In the perspective of Bangladesh, the fire safety system solution is costly. The main reason to make this costly is that fire safety equipment is imported from other countries. Here comes vat, custom duty, lots of maintenance and hidden costs. Due to different types of documentational issues, and approval issue projects take a long time to complete. Here costs increase due to longer project completion time. Hidden costs include total costs due to lack of strong regulatory and inspection during construction of a building. Because all of these costs are included with total project costs and the total amount becomes very big for the clients and clients do not feel interest to install the fire safety system solution. In this report I try to discuss all possible obstacles of fire safety solution installations.