SIA BUILDING ACCIDENT

SIA BUILDING BACKGROUND

 • 5 year old 9 storey

SIA building

BUILDING
• Intersection of Padre Rada
Street and Juan Luna
Street
 SIA
BUILDING
• The owner was Ajit
Mansukhani

• Architect Albert Chua

• Building contractor, • AGVID Construction Company,

Architect Edward Sy the private contractor
which undertook pile
• Engineer Teofilo Go driving operations for
Sai's foundation. 
 • Mayor in Manila on 2004,

SIA Lito Atienza.

BUILDING
• Probe to conduct
investigation team

LITO ATIENZA
SIA BUILDING
ACCIDENT
 • The building started to lean
LEANING on that day

BUILDING • Authorities came at the scene

at around 1 p.m.

• Two hours after Ernesto

Ozaeta, guard of Insular
Savings Bank, reported to the
manager that he had felt
pounding on the ground floor
of the building. Ernesto
Ozaeta said that “The building
had sunk after I heard a loud
cracking sound.”
 • Around 1 p.m., Ajit
Mansukhani, the building’s
LEANING owner, arrived at the scene
with Harry Wong to handle,

BUILDING overlook
situation.
and assess the

• Wong proposed that the

building be demolished
immediately to minimize the
damage and prevent a "domino
effect."

• Authorities said there was no

equipment for that kind of
demolition.
LEANING
BUILDING
• By 3 p.m., the building was
already leaning some four feet
to its right, its angle made
apparent by the building's
skewed distance from the
structure behind it.

• At 4:40 pm, it was completely

collapsed as it dove face
first onto the concrete
street.
FOUNDATION
FAILURE
FOUNDATION Differential settlements are

SETTLEMENT uneven foundation settlements

that can be the result of
numerous causes.
FOUNDATION Causes of differential

SETTLEMENT
settlements

•Soil of different
lithological characteristics
in the horizontal direction
(different compressibility
and soil compressibility
beneath different parts of
the foundation structure).

•Drying of soil surface

layers.
 Causes of differential
settlements
FOUNDATION •The proximity of trees with

SETTLEMENT large roots.

•Piping leaks, sewer

drainage etc.

•Excavations near the

structure.

•Different dimensions and

depth of structure
foundation.

•Vibration.
SIA BUILDING
VIOLATION
 This incident entails that the
National Building Code is not being
PROVISION OF THE strictly enforced and followed.

NATIONAL BUILDING Below is an excerpt of the code

defining dangerous buildings:
CODE WERE VIOLATED
The following excerpt from the Code
delineates the abatement of such
buildings:

1.Where the dangerous building can

reasonably be repaired such that it
will no longer be dangerous, it shall
be ordered repaired;
 
 Below is an excerpt of the
code defining dangerous
PROVISION OF THE buildings:
NATIONAL BUILDING 2. Where the dangerous building
CODE WERE VIOLATED is such that to repair it would
cost more than 50 percent of the
current to replacement cost of
the building, it shall be
repaired or demolished at the
opinion of the owner; and
 
3. Where the dangerous building
poses an immediate threat to
life, limb, or property, it
shall be vacated immediately.
GOVERNMENT
RESPONSE
 THE The Metropolitan
Development Authority,
Manila
the
GOVERNMEN National Disaster Coordinating

T Council, the Manila City

Government, and the Department
RESPONDED of Public Works and Highways
helped secure the area.
 THE The Manila Mayor at that time
was Lito Atienza, who was at the
GOVERNMEN scene, has ordered a thorough
T investigation of the incident.

RESPONDED

LITO ATIENZA
 AFTER
THE
ACCIDENT

The fact-finding committee

tasked to look into the collapse
of the Sai Building in Binondo
last July 23 is ready to release
its findings.
IS THERE AN
APPLICATIO
N OF OSH
Act?
 Republic Act No. 11058 - An Act
IS THERE AN Strengthening Compliance with
Occupational Safety and Health
APPLICATIO Standards and Providing
Penalties for Violations thereof
N OF RA (OSH Law)
11058? RA 11058 mandates that
businesses recognize their
workers’ rights to be informed
of the nature of their work, to
refuse to perform unsafe
functions, to report accidents
and file for compensation, and
to be provided with protective
equipment. Unsafe workplaces can
lead to tragedy. 
CONCLUSION
Those who would be charged for negligence are owner Ajit Mansukhani;
architect Albert Chua; building contractor, architect Edward Sy, who
was named Mansukhani's official representative according to records.
Also to be charged for negligence are Engineer Teofilo Go, who was
responsible for the building's design; and AGVID Construction Company,
the private contractor which undertook pile driving operations for
Sai's foundation. City officials who are likely to face administrative
and criminal charges, Atienza saidsaid include Engineers Lirma
Fajardo, who evaluated the building plans and passed it for compliance
with construction requirements; Rolito Samson, field inspector during
the pile driving and the first stage of construction; and Wilson
Habana, who monitored the construction. Edgardo Soriano, head of the
Manila Building Office Enforcement Division, could also face criminal
and administrative charges for signing the building's Certificate of
Final Inspection and the Certificate of Occupancy.
Also liable for the building's fall are officials
of Manila's Building Office, who issued permits
for the building's construction and monitored work
on the building. The fact-finding committee found
the building's design, especially its pile
foundation, faulty, among others. The fact-finding
committee, is headed by Secretary to the Mayor
Emmanuel Sison, vice-chaired by City Administrator
Dino Nable, and with City Engineer Armand Andres
and professional civil engineers as members