Palace II

Palace II

Infobox building
building_name = Palace II
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building_type = Residential
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location = flagicon|Brazil Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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start_date = 1990
completion_date = 1995
demolition_date = February 28, 1998
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floor_count = 22
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services_engineer =
civil_engineer = Sergio Naya
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Palace II was a tower block built at Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It became famous in February 22, 1998, when parts of it collapsed, due to engineering error, killing eight people. [ [http://www.unb.br/ics/dan/Serie274empdf.pdf Das “Bravatas” - On Boasting, ritual lies and the rhetoric of excuses] ] The remaining parts of the building were demolished four days later, not before another part of its structure collapsed on February 27. [ [http://www.cpovo.net/jornal/A103/N151/HTML/default.htm Correio do Povo - Mais um desabamento no prédio] ] Before the building was demolished, however, some researches found out empty piers and evidences of the usage of sand from the beach on the construction. [ [http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/cotidiano/ult95u374662.shtml - Desabamento do Palace 2 completa dez anos; vítimas buscam indenização] ] All families had to move to hotels after the building’s fall. They had no time to collect their personal objects on their apartments. Although most of them have not yet received any kind of indemnity from the company responsible for building their homes, the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil had announced, on April 9, 2008, the unblocking of 13 million reais (equivalent to some 6,5 million dollars) earned through the auction of a property of Sergio Naya, the engineer who had built the building, [ [http://www.endividado.com.br/materias_det.php?id=20497 Endividado - Palace II: STJ libera dinheiro de indenização a vítimas do desabamento] ] which will be given to the 130 families who lived there.

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