PUBLISHED: 30 Mar 2025 at 05: 46
The Department of Public Works and Town and Country Planning ( DPT ) has been ordered to conduct a thorough investigation into the collapse of the State Audit Office’s building during the earthquake.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said in a press interview that a council will identify the cause of the fundamental failure and report back within a year.
The investigation will study the building’s design, the power that approved the design, how it was approved and whether any of these elements led to the collapse, she said.
Mr Paetongtarn even echoed public concern as to why this tower collapsed but another, similar structures remained unchanged.
” I watched many videos of the tower decline from different angles. From my experience in the construction business, I have never seen an problem like this. We must research carefully because a significant portion of the funds was allocated, and the date for execution had been extended”, she said.
The business was a joint venture between Italian-Thai Development Plc and a company of China Railway No. 10 Engineering Group, which operates under the state-owned China Railway Engineering Corporation ( CREC )– one of the world’s largest construction and engineering companies.
Users were quick to point out that the company’s comments about the fell creating have all been deleted, despite the framework having been completed on March 31 next year.
However, Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said firefighters are being hampered by dust and insisted that their activities are not slower.
He did, however, concede that the 24-hour level, known for being the place where the odds of finding individuals after a disaster drops quickly, has passed.