28: Hotel New World

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)

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Episode Gold Producer: 'r'.
Episode Silver Producers: Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.