Hell for residents just got worse as crane collapses at Pattaya condo development

[Awinkl]

WHERE is that Building??

 

[dinsdale]

6 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Thai urban planning at its best.

Thai corruption at it's best. Lot's of big brown envelopes in this one. Less money for the actual construction, lots of short cuts equals bigger pockets. How can this ever stop when the one's that have the power to stop it are the one's doing it.

[wvavin]

It is ok. This is Thailand so business as usual folks.

[Zack61]

4 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

 

Aha....

 

What does being a lawyer have to do with  facts?

 

 

 

Absolutely nothing. Lawyers never deal with facts. It's all about figure$. 

[ThaidaGwaii]

Do these buildings ever collapse?  They look so poorly made.

[Chivas]

lol what do you mean they scarpered !!

[Grumpy Duck]

6 hours ago, Monkeyrobot said:

What happened the the crane operator? Is he still alive? 

I was thinking the same thing

[dotpoom]

10 hours ago, kcpattaya said:

Hear hear to another bar-lawyer

Good to hear a sane voice for once. People seem to forget that countries who are good at developing had to crawl before they walked too.

  Seems to me it was not so long ago that a balcony collapsed in a residence in Berkley colledge....and that is not in Thailand.

[inThailand]

Is this really news? This is the normal Thai building process....1 step forward and 2 steps backwards to fix step 1.

Edited September 18, 2017 by inThailand
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[CH1961]

18 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

Don't buy in Thailand.

Sent from my EVA-L19 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

The wise guy from another forum was speaking :-)

[crankshaft]

21 hours ago, johng said:

In the background of the second picture you can see some of the "unused" water treatment plant.

In Portugal I stayed in a condo development about .5km away from a sewage treatment plant....I didn't know that when I booked the condo...on days when the wind was blowing from the sewage plant...the smell was just about unbearable....I swear that you could taste it.... 

[lucjoker]

15 hours ago, Monkeyrobot said:

What happened the the crane operator? Is he still alive? 

He's in the monkey-house.......

i mean ...the zoo

[Colabamumbai]

Burn it down.

[Colabamumbai]

8 hours ago, Grumpy Duck said:

I was thinking the same thing

No he scarpared.

[masuk]

22 hours ago, johng said:

In the background of the second picture you can see some of the "unused" water treatment plant.

Water treatment or unused sewerage treatment??

[johng]

Water treatment or unused sewerage treatment??

Unused sewage treatment plant at the moment...but maybe when the high rise "luxury" condos are finished
the treatment plant will be used,all the effluent needs to go somewhere.

[Keesters]

18 hours ago, Deez said:

Out of curiosity , I wonder how much it costs to "buy off" officials to bypass any safety measures? Serious question!

How ever much it is it is obviously affordable and profitable for both parties.

 

Remember life is cheap in Thailand, especially if it is not yours.

 

[Ossy]

15 hours ago, tryasimight said:

Be a great selling point....beautiful view of turds and condoms on one side...on the other a sewerage treatment plant.

Ah . . . that's why they're called condos. And, if an Irishman bought tree of these, would the last one be his turd?

[MyFriend You]

19 hours ago, kcpattaya said:

Workers? This S. Sands project has been sitting dead for the last 3 years?

True, but I noticed cement trucks started going in and out during the last 2 weeks or so - don't know the particulars but thought that project was bankrupt???

[MyFriend You]

13 hours ago, Zack61 said:

Absolutely nothing. Lawyers never deal with facts. It's all about figure$. 

Economics 101 = Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

[wpcoe]

17 hours ago, Awinkl said:

WHERE is that Building??

It's in Jomtien on Soi Watboon-Kanjanaram.  If you are driving from Jomtien Second Road heading toward Sukhumvit, it's on the left side of the road not far past the big fresh market and Majestic Condo.  It's called Savannah Sands.

[oldies1]

21 hours ago, Monkeyrobot said:

What happened the the crane operator? Is he still alive? 

Yes he is, here's Crane

 

 

Edited September 19, 2017 by oldies1
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[Hooliganzone]

I drive past this so called construction nearly everyday i have  mentioned to my wife that there doesn't seem to be any building going on never see trucks going in or out or people working.

To me it looks as if they have run out of money and just do a bit at a time when some money arrives.

 

It should be knocked down looks like a eyesore and dangerous.

[aussie11950]

I thought multi story building sites were to have debris limiting curtains, fitted around the sides.

 

[johng]

1 hour ago, aussie11950 said:

I thought multi story building sites were to have debris limiting curtains, fitted around the sides.

 

Yes in "civilised" countries but even there accidents happen and not much is going to stop a tower crane once it falls.

[quadperfect]

Safety,construction methods and thai law are all good reasons to never buy property here. I would say its 10 percent of those that do actually buy here are happy with there choice the other 90 are just like these people here. Miserable.

[gk10002000]

19 hours ago, TunnelRat69 said:

True, but I noticed cement trucks started going in and out during the last 2 weeks or so - don't know the particulars but thought that project was bankrupt???

lots of cement trucks but not a lot of obvious construction eh?  Perhaps Jimmy Hoffa type of disposal operations?