Ngara Hotel

Ngara Hotel was completed in November 2012, but nine years later, shear cracks were appearing on a beam supported on an external column. After visual inspection and checking of all as-built drawings and calculations, it turned out that the suspect beam was carrying increased load from a secondary beam near the column that the contractor had omitted and was transferring additional load to it. Column underpinning was adopted, introduced under the intersection of the secondary beam and failed beam, thus restoring the integrity of the building.