There is hardly any major infrastructure development project in Bangladesh that has not benefitted from the engineering acumen and solid leadership skills of Professor Dr Jamilur Reza Choudhury. He was not only the country's foremost civil engineer but also a leading educationist, researcher and social activist.
side. now, the back side as we see here starts to come down almost immediately with the front side. i was able to get my hands on the original plans, and the original plans, as this goes down, shows that there was a shear wall. that wall when we looked at the original plans was right there in that section. so that s why it didn t fall immediately. if that shear wall was not there, then this portion that s here would have pancaked also. hanging on by a thread really. it s basically hanging on by a thread. due to its loss of equilibrium and the momentum caused by the collapse of the other structure, inevitably it s it gave way and just collapsed on itself. reporter: as the collapse was unfolding, the miami herald reports casey stratton called her husband to tell him the pool was caving in. then the line went dead. the call is a critical piece to understanding what happened.
way and care for you when you come home and your families. that is a sacred obligation. and we re behind right now. the va is having problems, and we ve got to get to the bottom of it. a handful of lawmakers have called for va secretary eric shinseki to resign over this issue. the white house, for now, standing by him. rescue teams expect to be back in western colorado today looking for three men missing after this unbelievable landslide sent at least three miles of mud cascading down not far from the utah border. the three included a county road worker and his son that had traveled out to the region to check on damage from an earlier slide, and then the ground gave way. there s a shear wall where it broke off of the mountain, and it pushed an enormous amount of land, you know, a half a mile forward. the sheriff says everyone is praying for a miracle, but the ground is so unstable right now, they don t want to risk any more lives during the search.
standing, and thenmoved back. pure speculation, others ask me, how could it be that i don t see any material of the roof material that was being placed, on the existing building? the building is still standing. yet if it was placed where was it placed? places on the building that failed, and if so, wasplaced on the joint where it failed? gets back to what asher is saying. some folks say, no, the failure is down below. some people saw a sinkhole. some people saying maybe the materials were not spread around and they were loaded and people thought was safest, which is by the shear wall and maybe that s the weakest point because the water membrane was not protecting it for years, and maybe that s where the failure was. then you start to look at it from a different perspective, like he said. maybe you need to look from the north, rather than from the south. it s like an accident and four people on four corners see the same accident in four different