Article Summary on Hotel New World, Draft #2

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In the article, “Hotel New World Collapse,” Kayat (2012) had unfold the theories and reasoning of this catastrophe. According to “Chronology of events,1987,” (as cited in “Hotel New World Collapse, 2012”), various theories like internal explosions resulted by gas leakage or terrorism, defective building materials, poor soil foundation and additional live load were made. However, they were not the causes to the failure after further examination. It also stressed that the failure was progressive and was due to initial inferior structure design and insufficient maintenance. As this was further mentioned by Neale (2001), the building self-weight was overlooked in the calculations done by the engineers and draftsman. He also stated that the calculations should be checked by a different professional engineer before submission.

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