Questions about steel bars used in construction
Mountain of debris: Private organizations help in deployment cranes to erase the rubble in the search and rescue effort on a collapsed construction site in the catuchak district in Bangkok on Tuesday. Nutthawat wichieanbut
The government intensifies its investigation in other construction projects linked to the Chinese entrepreneur of the building under construction of the office of the state audit (SAO) which collapsed in Bangkok on Friday Friday earthquake.
Speaking after Tuesday’s cabinet’s meeting, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said she had asked various agencies to investigate all construction projects awarded to the China Railway n ° 10 engineering group.
The SAO has contracted an Italian-Thai and China Railway N ° 10 development consortium to build the building of 2.1 billion baht.
“All the agencies concerned have been responsible for diving more deeply to know how many other projects that the company undertakes,” said the Prime Minister.
She said the collapsed building cost lives and negatively affected the image of Thailand.
The Minister of Justice Tawee Sodsong ordered the Ministry of Special Investigation (DSI) to investigate, she added.
“All Bangkok buildings must comply with legal standards. Safety must be absolute priority,” said Paetongtarn.
She said that a survey would be launched in allegations that the steel bars used in the construction of the building were lower.
In addition to the Sao building, other projects undertaken by China Railway No.10 Engineering Group include the construction of a building from the National Water Resource Bureau and certain sections of the high-speed railway project from Bangkok-Ning Khai.
The vice-minister of trade, Napintorn Srisunpang, said that an initial survey noted that the shareholders of the n ° 10 engineering group of China Railway 10 are linked to 13 other companies.
He said that an investigation committee set up by the Ministry of Commerce will work with the Division of the Royal Police’s Economic Crime Repression and the income department to investigate whether the group was involved in a collusion or used of Thai candidates.
The ministry will transmit the conclusions to the CIO, said Napintorn, adding an initial control revealed that 51% of the group’s shares are held by Thai and 49% by Chinese nationals.
Bloomberg said that entrepreneurs in the construction office tower who collapsed in Bangkok used quality steel bars to a factory that had been closed by the authorities.
Samples of two different sizes of steel bars taken from the site of the construction of SAO have failed tests by the Inter and Steel Institute of Thailand for their mass, their chemical composition and their ability to resist stress before breaking.
The metal was manufactured by a company whose factory has been closed for other violations since December, Thitipas Choddaechainun, head of a working group from the Ministry of Industry, said without identifying the company.
Images of the steel bars shared by the ministry and the local media showed the brand “Sky”, manufactured by Xin Ke Yuan Steel Co, which had a factory in the province of Rayig. The authorities closed the factory in December due to an accident involving a fuel tank leak and seized more than 2,400 tonnes of steel.
The 30 -storey building was the only building to collapse in the Thai capital following the 7.7 magnification earthquake that hit Myanmar. The collapse killed at least a dozen workers and trapped with dozens of others.
Xin Ke Yuan Steel is the second Chinese company to draw a Thai exam. The skyscraper was under construction by ITD-CREC, a joint venture between Italian-Thai-Thai-Thai-Thai-Thai development, the authorities China Railway No.10 Thailand Co., the authorities collect more steel samples and will collaborate with the probe.
A American military scanning kit detects images of bodies trapped in the collapsed building. Thailand fire and rescue
