16 blamed for series of bus shelter cave-ins

CHINA DAILY USA

Sixteen designers people, including and government responsible for the collapse of 16 bus shelters, one of

after heavy snowfall in Hefei, capital of Anhui province. and the shelters caved in during the battered the city on Jan 3. An investigative team, comTphreisedmoafteloricaalsl ell as 11 experts from Tsinghua University and Southeast Uniovnerbseihtya,lf

einfoarmraetsiounltis of weak aluminum pillars and shoddy design. oDlCv.ed in the of the shelters and are now in the hands of prosecutors, the city government said S14uthndStarye.etTNhWey include the ADCnh20u0i45Chuangyu Construction Engineering as well as a construction inspection engineer and a design engineer with other firms. officials with the Hefei key project construction administration at Hefei been demoted and had demerits added to their personnel files. were construction all on had only about a year before they collapsed. They were island-type structures built in the middle of the road, a design believed to be more efficient for public transport.

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as estiTmel:a4t1e6d-4t8o1-c5o7s0t615 million yuan ($2.38 million), although the contract was eventually awarded in May 2016 to Anhui Chuangyu after the company bid just 7.1 million yuan.

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