Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Gong Badak Stadium: Roof Collapse

I just saw this stadium last week when I was in Kuala Terengganu.

Today, it was reported that the rood has collapsed.

It was also reported that the roof construction was done by a foreign expert contractor.

I don't think so. My good friend Razali should be able to tell us more.

17 comments:

La Cha Mau said...

GOD has a strange way of preparing us for the ultimate collapse. We have Jaya, then Susan Boyle, then Fernandez, then Gong Badak...followed by the Mother of all Collapses in 2013. That would be a mighty fitting indeed, No?

Anonymous said...

Certain parts of roof beam already drop by few foot after official opening.
There are photos taken after completion that the defect can be visibly seeing. The miracle is that it collapse just in between days that the stadium was packed. There are too many low standard workmanship and management nowadays when the contract always awarded to no experience contractor.

simply blame one said...

How can the consultant blame the contractor? The consultant has to bear the responsibility!

Anonymous said...

What a shame!!!!!!! It supposed to be an easy project compare to a bigger stadium in other country which still stand still for many years. This is the reflection of too many corruption in the project. Mat Ngah & Mat Noor(Contractor)has no profesionality from my point of view and supposed not to be awarded for the project. Bloody Hell...

Anonymous said...

I wanna add more. The state assemblyman and JKR Pengarah(Rosli Botak) also responsible for this incident as they created a turmoil during the project. Too many corruption. Lack of profesionalism in Terengganu leadership.

moo_t said...

From the news, they way "clearing works" are in progress.

IMHO. even with casualty, they CANNOT clear the area which might jeopadize people trapped. If there is no casualty, then the area must be sealed to investigate the cause, otherwise, it is a step OF DESTROYING EVIDENCE.

Anonymous said...

my goodness Mave.
is this for real. foreign expert contractors job can lead to such collapsed? are we going to see KLCC and KL Tower next... and the whole plot of land and buildings in Putra Jaya sink as well. we all know foreign expert contractors also involved in these mega projects.

anyway, which country experts??? zimbabwe, papua new guinea, cameroon, mongolia, or perak....

am just speechless!

Anonymous said...

And Malaysia is considering building a nuclear reactor!

June.W said...

~~~sigh~~~...am speechless and malu..i would say that all parties should be blame..i dun understand, thousand year ago without high technology, today these old structures still standing proud in front of us. And now we have the so call specialist with all the technology, all buildings collapse faster one by one, and the new Malaysia Book of Record is....**less than 1 year**....hip hip hooray

moo_t said...

June.W ,
Don't bet on the ancient human being, after all, they are human , susceptible to corruption.

Anonymous said...

fishy deals??rampant with million changing hands.JKR, EXCO,contractor+consultant sama aja.....

artchan said...

Of course the investigation will be carried out blah blah blah,,,MACC will investigate, JKR will investigate..the whole country will investigate..to me this is a waste of time. Build another stadium, do not open for tender, negotiate contract, closed bidding etc to take care of cronies and friends so that they can continue milking the gravy train.

No one will will hauled up. As usual.

One good thing though..God was kind, really kind.There was no loss of life. And for that I am eternally thankful

Anonymous said...

Half Value should be held responsible!

Anonymous said...

Pengarah JKR should now go hiding in bora-bora cave.

The consultants should run to safety zone in Baghdad.

The Architect should migrate to Mekah and keep praying everyday that for his design of palaces and airport won't collapse.

The merging company group of no experience contractors should start selling their young wife's to compensate the public money they wallop.

Go check properly of lousy and failure design of Olympic class swimming pool.

Go check the lousy workmanship of airport.

artchan said...

anon 839pm,

All those you mention are not going anywhere. They are happily counting their ill gotten gains and know that in Bolehland crooks like them are seldom punished. Light a candle and in the slammer you go. Wear black and the polce will come after you. Cheats are untouchable.

All those crooks above will be/are planning how to cheat more from the Govt.

Anonymous said...

It ain't a shame tears fall like rain... sang the late Fats Domino

Anonymous said...

nobody felt ashame of this collapse, they start pointing fingers and proudly declared they have nothing to do with it.