Listen "28: Hotel New World"
Episode Synopsis
In 1986 an unremarkable building in Singapore collapsed killing dozens of people. We look at how the supervision of the construction and the design itself resulted in a structure that was at best critically stable, and ultimately one that could only ever fail.With John Chidgey.Prior Episode References:
Causality Episode 5: Maccabiah
Causality Episode 15: Sampoong Department Store
Links of potential interest:
Hotel New World Collapse
Collapse of Hotel New World
Structural Load
Report of the Inquiry into the Collapse of Hotel New World (Embedded PDF)
Support Causality on PatreonEpisode Gold Producer:
'r'.Episode Silver Producers:
Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.
Causality Episode 5: Maccabiah
Causality Episode 15: Sampoong Department Store
Links of potential interest:
Hotel New World Collapse
Collapse of Hotel New World
Structural Load
Report of the Inquiry into the Collapse of Hotel New World (Embedded PDF)
Support Causality on PatreonEpisode Gold Producer:
'r'.Episode Silver Producers:
Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.
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