28: Hotel New World
Causality
English - May 09, 2019 20:00 - 25 minutes - 14 MB - ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsDocumentary Society & Culture causality engineering cause and effect design Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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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Episode Gold Producer:
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Episode Silver Producers:
Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.