Reader's Response Draft #3
In the article, “Hotel New World Collapse,” Kayat (2012) described the theories and reasoning of this catastrophe. The author discussed about the history, chronology of events and various theories. According to “Chronology of Events,” (1987, as cited in Kayat, 2012), Kayat mentioned that various theories like internal explosions resulted by gas leakage or terrorism, defective building materials, poor soil foundation and additional live load were made. However, these phenomena were not the causes to the failure after further examination. Kayat also stressed that the failure was progressive and was due to initial inferior structure design and insufficient maintenance. As by Neale mentioned, (2001, as cited in Kayat, 2012), the building self-weight was overlooked in the calculations done by the engineers and draughtsman. Neale also stated that the calculations should been checked by a different professional engineer before submission. The article addressed the causes of the catastro...