Dive Summary:

• The tragic Bangladesh factory collapse is being blamed on illegal and substandard construction practices. Supporting columns were too narrow and lacked reinforcing steel and upper stories were overloaded, according to an independent assessment.
• The army is leading a review of other factories in the area and, according to a local civil engineering professor, many other buildings have been found to be substandard.
• At least 700 people have died as a result of the factory collapse -- already far exceeding the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire -- and the toll may rise as high as 1,000.

From the article:

The Bangladesh Building Code has 66 laws. “Compliance remains an issue with a lack of trained supervisors,” says [Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology professor Mehedi Ahmed] Ansary. “We need a buildings' ethics code that can be enforced.”