Summary:
“It seems like the constant movement affected the stability of the soil and subsequently the shore piles,” said the employees. With the land caving in around the area, the girders and concrete pillars also collapsed. KOCHI: Construction of the 12-storey building at Kaloor was in the stage of building basement floors when the concrete piling pillars collapsed on Thursday night. Shore piles that collapsed were driven to the ground around six months ago.On Friday morning, what one could witness on the site was a huge crater with five earth movers and a crane buried partially in mud and the collapsed shore piles. Pillars were also immersed in the site, which are connected to the concrete wall using iron rafters.On Thursday night, the wall shoring piles adjacent to the Banerjee Road and the Kochi Metro sank into the construction site..