1.0 Introduction Due to the geographical position of Bangladesh every year this country needs to face number of natural disaster. Facing so many disasters like flood, cyclone, drought, earthquake now people of this country know at least a little, how to manage the natural disaster, what to do and what not to do during those crisis. But, still we lack of managing the manmade disaster. Like the “Building Collapse”. Recent Rana Plaza tragedy had made us aware about our present vulnerable position in the sector of building collapse disaster. It has shown our vulnerable position in this kind of disaster. For, the reason of a single building the whole country was stacked for few days. Total 1136 person has died due to this incident. Around 4000 people have been injured and around 5000 family have been affected directly or indirectly. This was the only one remarkable building collapse incident in last century in our country. If this kind of incident be repeated further. Where we shall stand? Whatever, this disaster could be managed more efficiently. Requirement was a bit awareness and some knowledge about the result of the incident. 1.1 Aim The aim of this paper is to highlight the manmade disaster “Building Collapse”, it’s details, mitigation, how to minimize the loss due to building collapse?

1.2 Scope In this paper I shall discuss the following things sequentially: * What is building collapse * Types of building collapse * Reasons of building collapse * Effects of building collapse * Rana Plaza tragedy * Measures to avoid building collapse * Few do’s and don’ts during building collapse * Owner’s responsibilities

2.0 Building Collapse

Structural integrity and failure is an aspect of engineering which deals with the ability of a structure to support a designed load (weight, force, etc...) without