Building Failure in Thailand in 25-Year Period (1989-2013)
Wasurat Chainuwat ^* Siwapan Sae-lim ^* and Sorakarn Sritong-on
Department of Civil and Environmental Technology, College of Industrial Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok.

Abstract

This academic article was the presentation of the building failure in Thailand in the past 25-year period (1981-2013) by making the data conclusion statistically and percentage, and in various aspects of the building failure. These informed how the failure occurred and made the interested people, including the engineers, to realize the main causes of the failure. The obtained result was the statistical failure data, ages and heights of most buildings and their main causes, used as the data in the prevention of the building failure occurring in the future. The study result showed that the building failure occurred during the construction 40%, next was the building age more than 5 years. Most building failure occur at present came from the construction work problem, which might damage the building, for 27.2% of all case studies, then it was the foundation problem 23.6%, the heights 1-5 storeys of most failed buildings had the error 49.1%.