matrix of responsibility of the engineering team - Board of Engineers ...
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ENGINEERING FAILURES<br />
• Earliest tragic building industry failure in<br />
Malaysia: <strong>the</strong> 1968 collapse <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 4-Storey Jalan<br />
Raja Laut Flats in Kuala Lumpur, which<br />
contributed to <strong>the</strong> subsequent gazetting <strong>of</strong> UBBL<br />
1984<br />
• Most devastating ‘failure’ was undoubtedly <strong>the</strong><br />
Highland Towers tragedy in 2003<br />
• Both relate to C&S <strong>engineering</strong> failures with<br />
fatalities that led to wide spread media coverage<br />
and White Papers<br />
• O<strong>the</strong>r less ‘impactful’ failures are <strong>the</strong> Defence<br />
Bunker, MRR2, Matsushita bridge, ro<strong>of</strong><br />
structure collapses and so on<br />
• All <strong>the</strong>se C&S failures made it to <strong>the</strong> news since<br />
such failures are ra<strong>the</strong>r obvious and visible