Construction has halted on a seven-story apartment building that, until this Sunday, was being erected behind the Zeer department store in Pathum Thani, just north of Bangkok.
Public works officials came in and demanded that workers halt their progress on the building after neighbors complained to the police that the building was leaning visibly to one side. A quick check of this photo from the Nation reveals that their fears had plenty in the way of factual basis.
In a statement regarding the building, Thanes Weerasiri, head of the Engineering Institute of Thailand under HM’s Patronage, said the tilting was caused by the building’s foundation not being solid enough.
Thanes recommended the apartment complex be demolished, or heightened and rebuilt.
