Royal Plaza Hotel Case Study

What changed as the result of this disaster and or other similar ones: [Executive summary for the the collapse of the royal plaza hotel,Members of the EIT Task force Worsak Kanok -Nukulchai (chairman), Mhan Sriroehthong (secretary) and ppl. ,Internet archive wayback machine,thai engineering, Completion date September ,30,1994 (1.1)].The Royal plaza hotel collapse was a serious disaster in the history of thailand.At the time of the collapse thailand was having fast growth economy wise in the world.The businessmen and elite wanted to invest little on safety and were in pursuit of gaining more and more with minimal effort.They had zero safety regulation for the safety of …show more content…
Some measures were carried out as a start after the collapse in order to improve the situation of construction in the country.After the incident, the prime minister of thailand Chuan Leekpai visited the site and then also order to have safety checks of all the buildings which were considered substandard and he ordered public universities to aid them in assessing the situation.All together they assessed 218 buildings which were under investigation of having safety concerns .Some of the buildings were found to be dangerous to live in and renovations were ordered on them.The prime minister took this step to decrease the people's concern for safety after such a tragic incident.He involved the universities so that they can teach the students and highlight the importance for safety concern in the university and that the engineering student can learn from this and become better and safety regulated engineers in the future.In a result of this effort a base …show more content…
Lee and ppl.,National library board singapore]The collapse which were similar to the collapse of the royal plaza hotel include the collapse of hotel new world in singapore in march 15,1986 which was found to be caused by increased load on the building and faulty construction .It was felt in a same kind of way as the royal plaza hotel.It served as a great deal of help for the investigators who were finding the cause of the collapse of the royal plaza hotel.This disaster also resulted mainly due to structural and safety negligence and these two disasters further emphasized the increasing safety concerns which resulted in a strong reaction from the people to force the government to increase the standards of safety which caused