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“Chief engineers will then identify bridges for structural audit on the basis of the report and prepare a list of bridges taken for structural audit once in five years. “Structural audit of bridges with length between 250 and 500 meter has to be done through reputed engineering colleges. “For buildings with built-up area of up to 2,500 sqmt, structural audit has to be done from private technical consultant empanelled with the PWD. Also, decision to increase financial powers of chief engineers will help in speedy repair of bridges,” he said.The PWD has also allowed structural audit of buildings coming under its jurisdiction from third parties. But after the Mahad tragedy, the PWD started to take monitoring and repairing of bridges very seriously.According to a notification, describing the new norms in detail, issued by the PWD a couple of days ago, structural audit of bridges with length up to 250 meter will be done by private technical consultants registered with PWD..