Reports now show CTV building in New Zealand wasn't up to code

New evidence found on the 60 story office building in Christchurch, New zeland shows that the bulding was not up to code. The building was destroyed by the 6.1 magnitude on February 22nd 201, killing 115 of the workers inside. New findings show that the building fell because it was not up to code and was made of weak columns and concrete that did not meet its original standard in 1986. 

This is a major problem that we are facing with our infrastructures. Building codes are put into place to keep the people occupying it safe and to stop architectural faults from happening. If this building was never allowed to be built with pre-existings problems then the people working there would have never died. 

The next major problem about this building is that it was hit by a magnitude 7.0 in September of 2010. After being hit it was inspected to be sure that it was still safe to inhabit the offices and work inside. It received a "Green Sticker" which the public officials of the CTV building assumed it ment that everything was okay. At this time they didnt even take into account of what would happen if another earthquake struck it. Even worse the three men that inspected the building, none of them were engineers. 

This brings up a lot of problems today that people deal with all around the world. Design requirements and building testers need to be held to a certain level of responsibility to stay up to code and make the right call if it is safe. If corners wouldn't have been cut, then this building wouldnt have fallen killing all the innocent workers. 

Image above shows rescuers looking at the wreckage at the CTV buliding.

Original Story Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/10/new-zealand-quake-report-ctv-building?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487