17 Jun 2009
malaysian stadium collapses
a malaysian stadium, the roof of the sultan zainal abidin stadium collapses on its own recently. nobody is injured and fellow janitors managed to get to safety – but few vehicles were damaged.
now that’s shocking; what more if that stadium is only one year old. the stadium was once the venue for sukma (malaysian biannual sports event) of 5,000 athletes.
it’s just pure luck that nobody gets hurt. luckily malaysians aren’t that into sports anyway. I mean if bukit jalil stadium collapses, nobody will get hurt too since there is only few pedestrians in 100 meter radius.
but the main question is always; who is to be blamed? I’ve heard the contractor is a korean company – but what I’m interested in is why it collapses on its own?
An architectural student from malaysia, studying in Curtin University, pursuing his Master in Architecture. Contact at yang(at)yangsquare.com
dude, refer to the construction book n check up the steel frame issues and material weight.
and look at picture from the skyscrapercity.com about before it collapse. there is a flawed in the shape of the roof.Lucky it collapse earlier before it take place on event.
sirsc
June 18th, 2009 at 12:13 ampermalink
wow.. ask the engineers they are the ones who does the calculations..
julia
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 pmpermalink
History repeats itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koror-Babeldaob_Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seongsu_Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_collapse
Akiko
March 20th, 2010 at 2:52 ampermalink