Information sharing in building technology in Bangladesh: Focusing on formal and informal relationships

Abstract

Abstract This paper aims to clarify the reality related to technology acquisition by private engineers, and the relationship between public engineers, private engineers, and technical academicians to disseminate technology in Bangladesh. The country is in such a condition where even the central government does not grasp any statistical data of building industry. Bangladeshi engineers had to acquire the technical information in reality through the informal sharing such as alumni relations or individual relations. Mainly informal relationship is functioning between the public sector and academic institutions, in contrast, is sparse between the public and private sector. This paper represents unlikely to developed countries; informal sharing is also contributing a lot in developing countries. However, informal knowledge sharing is difficult to control the incentives and deliberate or spontaneous reconfiguration to false information is unacceptable due to importance and delicacy of building structural performance. In conclusion, this paper proposes to leverage existing informal relationship among engineers society of recipient countries for initial awareness of information dissemination.

Keywords

• Bangladesh
• formal
• informal
• information sharing
• technical stakeholder