21 January 2007
TEHRAN - A housing and construction research center has announced that a geotechnical engineering databank is required to be created to help organize decision-making and management when dealing with structural safety.

"There is a lot of unsystematized, fragmentary data on construction and housing subjects in the related organization across the country," the center's report added, noting this could be put in order once the databank introduces a building code. That code, urged the report, should be immediately enforced by the government so that every new building project is based on new structural safety recommendations.

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