People spent tons of $$$ on buildings but amazingly, are not willing to invest proportional amount of time building them right, building them better.
Yes, there are always liquidated damegs to think of when the project is behind schedule. However, there's no incentives for early completion. That's the way contracts are being drafted here. One sided.....
Getting a building approved for use is a complicated (and painful) process. Designs will be checked and approved. Spot audits are done by technical departments on site (depending on the scale of the development). Most of the works will go by the self-declaration route.
A damaged water pipe is not unusual but in this case, it brought down a huge portion of the ceiling. Its just unfortunate.
Do they really check ? Or do they just wayang wayang only ? :bsmilie:
Maybe it is not the damaged water pipe that brought the ceiling down.
The collapse of the whole ceiling may have caused damage to the water pipe.
Major defects (generally in other construction failure cases) can sometimes be due to: Poor workmanship. Shoddy construction. Lack of supervision. Use of sub-standard materials.
Possible reasons in other cases of major defects: Rushing to deadlines and repeated sub-sub-sub-sub-sub contracting until the last guy has so little that he cannot do a proper construction.
It is rarely due to faulty design, in this modern era.
I doubt this would happen if the main contractor was a top-level Japanese contractor, like say for example Shimizu. Or a top level French contractor like Dragages.
But unfortunately in this case, .....
One last point:
The developer and main contractor are fortunate that NO DEATHS to the public resulted from this ceiling collapse.
Or else they are in serious trouble.
Getting a building approved for use is a complicated (and painful) process. Designs will be checked and approved. Spot audits are done by technical departments on site (depending on the scale of the development). Most of the works will go by the self-declaration route.
A damaged water pipe is not unusual but in this case, it brought down a huge portion of the ceiling. Its just unfortunate.
Do they really check ? Or do they just wayang wayang only ? :bsmilie: