ICCI calls for amending firefighting rules for commercial and industrial buildings - Press Release issued by Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Islamabad -- November 02, 2022 (PPI-OT)

Following is the text of press release issued by Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)

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Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry invited Syed Kashif Shah, Director, Emergency and Disaster Management, MCI and discussed with him the concerns of the business community on the firefighting rules of MCI. He briefed him about the difficulties being faced by the business community in implementing the firefighting rules of MCI in industrial and commercial buildings. He said that it was not possible to implement these rules in the existing industrial and commercial buildings as it needed a lot of changes in building structures.

He stressed that MCI should implement these rules in new buildings and amend them in consultation with stakeholders to make them practicable for old and existing commercial and industrial buildings. He proposed that a Committee comprising representatives of ICCI and MCI should be formed to review and amend the building codes and firefighting requirements of MCI to make them implementable in the existing industrial and commercial buildings.

Syed Kashif Shah, Director, Emergency and Disaster Management, MCI said that he was not authorized to amend the firefighting rules...