The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has modified its standard operating procedure for casting the reinforcement cage in response to a report on the reinforcement cage collapse that occurred on January 10 that was submitted by Professor Chandra Kishen of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
What’s it about? According to Prof. Kishen, whose 27-page study was submitted to BMRCL, the 18-metre building that killed a mother and her kid recently was a mixture of two constructions that were stacked on top of one another. The whole 18-metre reinforcement structure fell because of bending caused by the overlapping structure and improperly built supporting components for the reinforcement cage.
- According to the IISc study, he said, modifications to the normal operating procedures for erecting the pillars will be implemented, including moving to two-stage casting and concretising the structure as soon as possible, among other things.
The case: The state government and BMRCL have been given two weeks to answer to the suo motu PIL the Karnataka High Court took up on Tuesday about the pillar fall on January 10 that claimed the lives of a young mother and her two-year-old son. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, BMRCL, and contractor Nagarjuna Construction Company received notices from the High Court.