Only one building in Bangkok shook the Myanmar during the earthquake on Friday, hundreds of miles. The recovery efforts continue with the death of at least 15 people and went missing with them. The identification of the reason may take months.
However, interviews on the site, with the early official findings, stressed the potential problems with construction design and quality.
In the center of Scrutiny, the 10th Engineering Group of the Chinese Railway, Thailand tried to remove the documents from a Chinese state company from the Site after a catastrophe.
Behind this is the Chinese company His Parent, China Railway Group – Chinese infrastructure giant, empty debt, a vacation for affiliates facing new projects and weak charges safe in several countries.
Workers in Bangkok made the 10th of the Chinese Railway, the 10th of China, which is part of the building and the columns used in the building, narrower than usual.
Thai officials said that they found a metal test from the ruins, found standard steel rods, and the Chinese owners were found by a Thai factory in December.
Anti-corruption guard, before March 28, the 30-storey tower said that the escaped workers were found in the early March, he said.
“Columns on the third floor – I looked back and looked back – the beams did not explode,” the 38-38-year-old apple waiting on the site for the news about his missing friends on Tuesday. “They collapsed because of metals in the inside.”
The collapse of the collapse acted aggressively to explain the country's image as a blow to the country, a consortium for the 62 million dollar construction contract. The government was intended to marry auditors.
On Tuesday, at a meeting, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Saiwatra, authorities ordered all the projects in Thailand in the 10th railway of the 10th railway. The parent did not remind the company to be investigated.
“Really need to find an answer,” said Paetongtarn told reporters. “We should tell people and what happened to the world in Thailand.”
Under pressure
The joint venture for 30-storey tower was registered in Thailand in 2018. This was managed by the Thai-Thai developer, Italian-Thai development, daily operations 10th rail.
A presentation video that the Chinese company recently demonstrates the drone images of the building and praised the quality of the construction. China Railway 10. is also responsible for the terminal of an airport that is likely to end in the south of Thailand, but it is likely to be Less than 40 percent According to the Ministry of Transport, from March.
China railway 10, Bangkok office did not respond to emails looking for comments. The Chinese embassy, in a statement on Facebook, called on Chinese companies to cooperate with the investigation of the Thai government.
The Chinese railway group, the mother company, most of China began to build a high-speed rail line of 30,000 miles. However, in recent years, as a need for new projects, the company and its subsidiaries have expanded their fields in a hurry to hire.
Its time often coincides with the priorities of the Chinese government. In 2019, Beijing, Pacific, searched for closer connections in the Chinese railway group Bought an inactive gold mine Solomon islands. The workers there reported that security concerns are often not taken into account.
On the way, the company's debt has increased. Its 2024-year report shows $ 211 billion worth of obligations, shows a $ 112 billion worth of $ 112 billion worth of $ 112 billion.
In California, a specialist in Chinese policy and finance at the University of San Diego, when a company owe such a heavy debt, “the pressure on the service debt can be very tight,” he said.
Another Chinese rail subsidiary has been accused of – for alleged corruption officers – for Kanop the collapse of a train station In Serbia, which causes 15 people in November.
Adding tension in Bangkok was behind the construction schedule. Although the building started 2020 was less than half. Thailand Anti-corruption organization Mana Nimmitgongkol said he threatened to cancel the project in 2024 due to the government's delays.
In addition, four Chinese citizens recognizing themselves as a subcontractor, after the earthquake, after the earthquake, was arrested on camera after the earthquake. They reported the authorities for the insurance claim. Police seized documents; The people were taken into custody and then released.
Weak materials
Structural engineers in Bangkok struggled to understand why the building hit the building.
Pennung Warnitchai, director of the Thailand Earthquake Research Center, which helped to help the earthquake-resistant standards in Bangkok, said the building should stay. After the earthquake, the earth's movement found in Bangkok, “One-third of the level we considered in the design of typical buildings.”
Thailand is usually followed by an American model for the protection of earthquake, which has started with a reinforced concrete nucleus. The main is typically a Rectangular shaft in the center of a buildingFloors and vertical support columns go beyond.
In the case of the building, designers put outside the main center, Mr. Pennung said he saw his plans. Other buildings with similar design did not collapse. However, the distance of the earthquake was created longer among the waves of the movement, and with Bangkok, built on soft land, can be both twisted and twisted and twisted and twisted.
Mr. Pennung and several other engineers stressed that it was too early to determine the cause of collapse. Steel quality, design, work standards and lands can all play a role. However, he said that the evidence of employees and officials have gathered so far, the earthquake videos and support columns or columns.
“It seems that it collapsed not above the top,” he said.
Other experts agreed that the building has not overthrown as a drop in accordance with the accounts of running workers at the last moment.
The third floors said six workers from the rising building from the third floors, the project is often seen dangerous. Some of the issues they reported were relatively young: Many employees wore athletes than the steel boots; The requirements for a trailer on higher floors were ignored.
Three employees with experience on several bottom floor, said the building's columns are thinner than they saw in other high-rise construction sites. Apichat Chaihlao, who works on the eighth floor, said he was so worried that his head was measured, and said that these columns were not right. “
“I didn't think about it at that time, but now he added” he added “and that the floor did not look strong.”
Two subcontractors who refused to give their names from the employer to give fear of budding, often ignored the proposals from their tank colleagues and used low-level contracts that cause low quality materials.
Report He stressed the lack of quality control over the subsidiary of the Chinese railway group in Serbia. There, an engineer working at the station with the deadly collapse, did not ignore the design features hired by the Chinese consortium and added additional concrete to Kanopy.
Nonthihai Likitaporn, the director of the Thai Institute of Industrial Standards, said that the problems related to the Bangkok building are very weak.
Examples of steel bars in two sizes collected from the site, tests for mass, chemistry and pressure by the Iron and Steel Institute of Thailand failed. Other examples responded to the required standards, Mr. Nonthichai, but problematic metal was developed by the same Chinese company: Foreign Ministry in Thailand's Rayong province, a factory in the province of Rayon Ke Yuan Steel Co.
Thai officials closed the factory in December, and asked for security risks after an accident on gas leakage. After the tests, they seized more than 2400 tons of steel, the height of the ribbon did not meet the criteria for the height and pipe composition, and weakens the adhesion and strength of the concrete.
Authorities demanded that the company's managers had already taken back any steel sold. It is unclear what they do.
The company could not be obtained for comments on the phone number specified on the website.
Chinese construction networks led by state firms played a key role in Bangkok, adding a recent building boom, apartments, train lines and other projects. The Thai government has an increasingly close relationship with China, the largest investor in Thailand. Thailand deported 40 through Peckin's request last month Uyghur Asylum Seekers UN officials have been tortured and arrested for a long time for a long time to return to China for a long time.
In China, Beijing asked the censure coverage and the collapse building. The investigation news was demolished shortly after an explanatory story about the structure of an investigation by Outlet, Caixin and official news agency, Sincho, damage caused by debris.
But in Thailand, Fear of tall buildings Now it's partner – and anger increased.
“The public sense of Thailand was increasingly critical of Chinese business and government.”
“The collapse of a building built in China” said, “He is likely to strengthen this critical picture.”
David Pierson and Berry wang According to the information provided by Hong Kong; Keith Bradsher and Li you From Beijing.