Imperfect

28: Hotel New World


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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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