countdowntogst wrote:
Hotel new world is because remove of piller without approve.
Get your facts right. That time hotel new world. You born already
or not ?
Don't get fooled by newspaper sensationalism. There was no
removal of any structural columns. A group of RC piles were badly
out of alignment with the pile cap as testified by the expert who
was nevertheless overruled on one of the commissioners of inquiry.
As a result of this structurally defective pile cap the columns
were obviously unable to carry the extra load posed by the
additional water tanks, OTTV claddings, safes and all.
The above-stated fact was not revealed to the public. I invite
anyone to study again the photographs of non-aligned piles and pile
caps as printed in the report of the COI and he would know better
why the structural checking was ever so important and not to be
delegated to LTA, HDB or any contractors, safety officers or
subcontractors who will definitely push away all such
responsibilities to god knows who.
If our million-dollar ministers cannot oversee his relevant
departments like the BCD there would be a lot of shirking and
excuses as seen in the Nicol Highway collapse inquiry where BCD
definitely failed to implement the structural checking introduced
after the Hotel New World collapse and sadly the prior-collapse
suicide of site engineer was not even looked into.