“The detection of an unbounded wall should ring an alarm bell,” he said.
Did he fear something will collapse on him?
Another court-appointed expert, Mario Buttigieg, testified about his conclusions after examining the accident site and finding the “hammer of the hymac [construction machinery] inserted in the rock, literally speaking.”
Tracks on the ground indicated the semi-circular trajectory taken by the hydraulic excavator as it turned backwards, away from the wall beneath the Pace residence to the opposite side of the construction site.
Buttigieg said that footage capturing the moment of the incident showed that as the machine was about to move backwards, the building collapsed.
Confusing construction industry regulations partly to blame for Ħamrun house collapse, court hears
Court appointed expert Architect Alex Torpiano testifies in court, saying that the house collapse that claimed the life of Miriam Pace was in part down to the state of confusion in industry regulations
26 February 2021, 4:40pm
by Matthew Agius
A leading architect has told a court that the collapse of a house in Ħamrun that claimed the life of Miriam Pace was partly down to “the state of confusion in the industry’s regulations.”
Alex Torpiano was testifying in proceedings against the two architects responsible for the building site next door to Pace’s family home, 36-year old Roderick Camilleri and 72-year old Anthony Mangion.
Contractor involved in fatal Hamrun house collapse had track record of construction site accidents
Contractor behind the Miriam Pace building collapse in Hamrun had been involved in several construction site accidents stretching back to 2002
25 February 2021, 12:23pm
by Matthew Agius
The construction company involved in the death of Hamrun house collapse victim Miriam Pace had been involved in a number of other alarming incidents, a court has heard.
This emerged in court as Magistrate Joe Mifsud presided over the compilation of evidence against two architects accused of Pace’s involuntary homicide, Roderick Camilleri and Anthony Mangion. Four persons stand charged in connection with the incident, two of whom have opted for a trial by jury.
The police had had seven reports of incidents involving the same contractor who was working on a site in Sta Venera last March when an adjoining house collapsed, killing resident Miriam Pace, a court heard on Thursday.
Superintendent Robert Vella, handling investigations after the tragic episode, said the reports about Ludvic Dimech or LK Ltd, took place between October 2008 and December 2019.
Days after the Hamrun tragedy, the contractor was involved in a road collapse at Pender Gardens, St Julians.
Obviously [Dimech] is not the only contractor who had such incidents,” Vella pointed out, further noting that some of those reports concerned incidents involving Enemalta cables.
Leadership is a vast topic, with different scholars coming up with various definitions, descriptions and characteristics of how leaders should act and how to be effective. According to some scholars, leadership standards have been based on male norms and cultures, and such stereotypes make it harder for women to achieve leadership positions.
Robert Vella, currently a head of department at Gozo College Secondary School, was recently awarded a PhD from the University of Sheffield School of Education after conducting research focused on women and leadership, in particular, educational leadership. The aim of his qualitative study was not to strengthen the premise of the underrepresentation of women in leadership, but rather to raise more awareness on women in leadership positions, the challenges such women meet before being appointed as leaders and while in leadership positions, and to come up with possible suggestions and recommendations. This was done by investigating the perceptions