The scene was straight out of a movie: An apartment building in Taipei shook and sank an entire storey into the ground.
Multiple viral video clips capturing the Sept 7 incident showed what was originally a five-storey building in Taipei’s Dazhi neighbourhood turning into one with four floors.While no one was hurt, the dramatic incident has exposed loopholes in Taipei’s construction regulations and raised questions of negligence in the island’s construction industry, where some companies cut corners at the expense of safety.
“Did the company take into account that soil in the Dazhi area is very weak, like soft clay?” he added, noting how Taiwan’s soil is not homogenous. On its part, Kee Tai has said that it would accept responsibility for the incident, and that it would help pay rent for the affected residents – around 25 households in the whole building – for the next three years as they seek new homes. The company’s chairman, Mr Chen Shih-ming, apologised at a press conference and resigned within a week.
“The numbers are so close that people would wonder about the company’s intentions. But I think more importantly, this has shown that Taipei’s regulations need to be a lot more stringent,” said Mr Liang Shih-tung, executive director of the New Taipei City Professional Civil Engineers Association.
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