Building collapses, despite an order banning its demolition

By The Nation

 

 

An under-demolition five-storey building in the National Housing Authority (NHA)'s Din Daeng flats in Bangkok, collapsed on Monday , seven weeks after its demolition was suspended by officials.

 

Din Daeng district office director Panchapat Lakdee later said demolition of the building had been halted on February 14 because officials felt it had not been made safe and following public claims that the demolition work wasn’t up to scratch. 

 

The district office would thus investigate what had caused the collapse and why the demolition had apparently been carried out by workers deliberately despite the suspension order, she said, adding that those inquiries might result in the district office filing a police complaint against the NHA and the private company that was awarded the contract.

 

The collapse happened at about 3pm, damaged five cars parked nearby and pulled down two power poles, said Pol Lt-Colonel Chakkapong Siboonreung. 

 

Police say that demolition of the building began last December as part of the NHA’s phrase II Din Daeng community rehabilitation project, which entailed a 35-storey building replacing the current one. 

 

They believe that structures in the lower floors were torn down without a supervising engineer being present and that this sent the upper floors crashing down. 

 

Although nobody was hurt by the collapse – it was an unusually quiet day, without the usual high traffic volumes – it caused a blackout in the other buildings, disrupting the lives of residents in the area.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30367019

 

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1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Building collapses, despite an order banning its demolition

Seems the building got so sick of waiting for bungling officials to work out what to do that it decided to take matters into it's own hands. 

8 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

demolition of the building had been halted on February 14 because officials felt it had not been made safe and following public claims that the demolition work wasn’t up to scratch. 

Depressed at the ineptitude of the authorities, the building flung itself off one of it's upper floor balconies. 

????

Many rats left homeless !! 

6 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

Depressed at the ineptitude of the authorities, the building flung itself off one of it's upper floor balconies. 

suicide was the decision !!!

3 minutes ago, essox essox said:

suicide was the decision !!!

You beat me to it !

25 minutes ago, essox essox said:

suicide was the decision !!!

The building collapsed by a sewer,

And by the sewer it died, 

The coroner at the inquest

Said it died of sewercide ????

The building collapsed by a sewer,
And by the sewer it died, 
The coroner at the inquest
Said it died of sewercide [emoji53]

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They should have wrapped those overhead Cables round the thing.

It would never have fallen down.