SINGAPORE: The accredited checker for a viaduct project in Upper Changi admitted on Monday (Jun 24) that he had failed to check the designs or ...
The 1.8km-long viaduct consists of eight flyovers, with permanent corbels located at expansion joints, the prosecution said.
His role, which was created after the 1986 collapse of Hotel New World, was to act as the final checking mechanism to check the structural design apart from the designer, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Yang Ziliang. Shivannani in September 2017 admitted that no calculations were performed for all corbels, permanent and temporary, during the submissions stage of building works.After the incident, calculations found the permanent corbels to be inadequate.
He added that although the remaining three piers might support the weight during the construction stage, the corbels would show significant structural cracks with a full traffic load, followed by"sudden brittle failure leading to collapse".
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