Building collapse in Brazil..

According to the report, lots of wood and other combustibles, used by squatters to make living accommodation inside the abandoned building.

Saves demolition costs.

Office building. Reinforced concrete with a curtain glass facade.

probably poor spec concrete inadequately cured and less rebar than the architect specified.

Now full of squatters who are having open fires and other silly things throughout the building.

One has to ask why it was abandoned, maybe because it was felt to be unsafe. I can recall here in Kingston a couple of years back some workmen were doing some removal of walls in a building whose drawing said it should be safe to remove, but it collapsed inward one night when the workmen were not there, it later transpired that the drawings were totally wrong about the construction materials and how they were secured, or from the looks of it, not secured.

It does make one think. Brian

One of the comments made by the fire service was that the lifts had been removed, which created a chimney effect that spread the fire. That suggests that it might have been in the process of being dismantled.