About this episode
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)
Support Causality on PatreonEpisode Gold Producer:
'r'.Episode Silver Producers:
Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.
