South African Engineers Rubbish T.B Joshua’s “Strange Plane” Claims, Reveal Real Reasons For Collapse

posted by harcknzy on september 25,2014

A South Africa-based senior professional civil engineer,Taka Sandewho has built numerous high-rise buildings in Zimbabwe and South Africa has commented on what may have led to the collapse of the Synagogue guest house.

This is coming on the heels of the video that showed a flying plane before the collapse.

According to Sande: “There is no connection whatsoever between the collapsing of the building and the plane.

Judging from the way the building crumbled down…

it is due to some kind of structural failure from the bottom. There was no explosion and no visible external forces involved. Hence what caused the collapse happened from inside and came from within the building itself.

“It is said that two floors had been added to the original building. Hence the first area to be investigated is whether there was adequate structural design done to cater for the additional floors. From three floors upwards the foundation has to be redesigned and the vertical support redesigned in form of columns. I would say the collapse happened due to poor workmanship, and in most cases the owner of the building may not be aware that the structural integrity was compromised. The one who is responsible can be identified after investigations.

“In general buildings, failures are caused by inadequate design by the structural engineers, a case of incompetency. They can be caused by cost-cutting measures by the contractor or by the owners who compromise the safety of the building in the name of cutting costs. And lastly it can be due to using inferior and substandard or unaccredited materials.

In this case the contract or the manufacturers are responsible. I hope the Nigerian government or its engineering statutory body will quickly set up a team to investigate this incident so that the responsible culprits can be brought to book. This will restore the integrity of their building industry.”