An environmental study on the collapse of a tenement building in HK

Title: An environmental study on the collapse of a tenement building in HK
Creator: Wu, M.; Tang, W. C.; Ke, Y. J.; Luo, C. M.
Relation: 2nd Global Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (GCCSE 2013). Applied Materials Research: Volumes 838-841 (Shenzhen, China 28-29 September 2013) p. 2208-2211
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.838-841.2208
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2013
Description: On 29 January 2010, a tragedy took place before the blissful Chinese Lunar New Year. An old tenement building in Ma Tau Wai collapsed in a sudden, causing 2 deaths and 4 injuries. Not only did this raise people's concerns to investigate the reasons the collapse of the tenement building, it also raised their awareness on old tenement buildings as well as protecting them from collapsing. In view of this, this paper investigates on condensation and how it might shorten the service life of that old tenement building.
Subject: building collapse; humidity; reinforcement steel bar; rusting; service life
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067995
Identifier: uon:18524
Language: eng
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