Work to restart at site of Malaysian supermarket collapse that killed seven.
Demolition work on the former Jaya Supermarket is scheduled to resume by the first week of March. This comes almost a year after the the 35-year-old building partially collapsed on May 28, 2008 during preliminary demolition work, killing seven workers.
Demolition work ground to a halt as investigations were launched, leaving residents and business owners to suffer the eyesore of the abandoned structure and the inconvenience of road closures.
The Petaling Jaya City Council finally lifted the stop-work order last November. Work was expected to resume in early December but until today there has been no activity at the site. However, Andy Yap, the chief operating officer of Pembinaan C.W.Yap, the contractor for the demolition job told FMT that work has in fact already begun.
“We’ve spent the last few months going over the plans in painstaking detail with our team of consultants and professionals to decide on the best and safest way of moving forward,” he explained.
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