Ramkhamhaeng building’s partial collapse blamed on foundation
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The Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) has initially concluded that a partial collapse of an apartment building in Bangkok’s Soi Ramkhamhaeng 39 on Tuesday night might have been due to a flaw in the two-storey, 20-room building’s foundation pillars and stanchions.
The building’s right side had sunk by one metre and tilted by two metres to the side, suggesting that there was a problem with the foundation pillars or stanchions, EIT president Thanes Weerasiri said during the Wednesday inspection of the scene.
Such subsidence will continue further depending on the characteristics of the soil, Thanes said, adding that there were previous cracks on the building’s right side suggesting the collapse has begun a while ago without anyone noticing.
