Hill Slope Development?

In case you don't realise, recently a landslide struck a construction site and buried 11 people. All of them died.

It was heavily politicised, mainly because there are people who opposed the construction and now tragedy just struck at an untimely manner.

First of all, I wish to say, to those who have zero knowledge on the matter, please shut up.

It was very obvious the site was a flat land. It was not a hill-slope development. It was a development on a flat land adjacent to a hill-slope. In geotechnical engineering there is a big difference between these two. The former one should worry people, because hill-slopes are very weak, and a very robust foundation systems and slope stability mechanism have to be in place.

In the latter one, all you need is proper geotechnical work to strengthen the weaken soil of the slope.

From the site, to those in the engineering industry, it is very obvious it is a construction site tragedy. The slope failure is most likely due to professional negligence. The geotechnical engineers probably did not get sufficient soil parameters or did not make proper design.

With good geotechnical engineering, even a hill-slope development, where apartments are built literally on a hill slope, would be very safe. Obviously, geotechnical engineers of the projects did not do a good job.

It was a very tragic incident, undoubtedly, but this isn't the state government's fault. Neither is it the central government's fault. It is the engineers' fault.

So just shut up, and stop politicising it and making a fool of yourself.