Terengganu Stadium ROOF COLLAPSES – after one year of being built

“peteh ganu peteh”Terengganu last night was qualified for the finals of Malaysian football.Even though the team lost to”hobin jang hobin” negeri Sembilan team 2-1. Do you know that Terengganu is a state that has a soccer stadium is beautiful and great. just shortly over a year after it was officially opened by the YANG DI-PERTUAN AGONG SULTAN MIZAN ZAINAL ABIDIN, the roof of the stadium named after him in Gong Badak, Kuala Terengganu collapsed this morning, damaging a few cars that were parked in the vicinity.

My point here why the stadium was built at a cost of RM270 million could collapse just like that.Whether it is due to the negligence of the contractor or it is simply to expedite the construction of ‘sukan sukma terengganu’. On June 2, 2009, a major part of the roof construction collapsed under normal weather conditions, including the section above the royal box. It was only a year after officially opened.

The major cause for the collapse of the roof was identified to be the failure of design and the materials used. There were also reports of sporadic loud bangs and structure damage prior to the collapse. One of the structural repair job on the roof was scheduled on the day of the collapse itself, along with some electrical repair works being carried out on other part of the stadium. As of June 2010, the cleaning work and relocation of the collapsed roof were not finished.

This is one of the shocking accident in Malaysia beside the “the highland tower collapse”.It remembered us that the project costing milions of dollar does not guarantee safety to the public as long we do not adopt the entire security before starting construction.Come people just realize we had KLCC tower that is one of the tallest tower in the world but it still standing now.So I hope the government realize this accident could not happen again in Malaysia.

By,MUHAMMAD SYAHMI BIN WAHAB.