Season 1 · Episode 28
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 …
May 9, 201925m 18s
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Show Notes
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.
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Episode Gold Producer: 'r'.
Episode Silver Producers: Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.
With John Chidgey.
Prior Episode References:
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.
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