Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was suspended from office on Tuesday, said on June 30 that deficiencies in design and construction methods caused the collapse of a partially built building in Bangkok in March, after an earthquake struck hundreds of miles away. The collapse killed at least 89 construction workers, most of them from Myanmar and Cambodia.
The 30-story building, which was set to house the Thai government’s State Audit Office (SAO), was the only one in Thailand to collapse following a magnitude 7.7 earthquake centered about 800 miles away in central Myanmar, also known as Burma.
“The conclusion, as reported by the investigative committee—comprising the Department of Public Works, Chulalongkorn University, Kasetsart University, and King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang—was based on localized mathematical modeling,” Paetongtarn said….
Design, Construction Flaws Led to Bangkok Building Collapse: PM
