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Karl Azzopardi has been appointed CEO of the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) board.  The BCA has been set up on the recommendation of an expert report into excavation and construction practices commissioned after a woman, Miriam Pace, died in March last year when her home collapsed. The other members of the board are Maria Schembri Grima, chairperson; Roberta Cutajar, secretary; and Ian Borg, Abigail Cutajar, Robert Ellul Sciberras, David Xuereb, Denise Micallef Xuereb, Eve Degiorgio, Charles Ellul, Desiree Attard, Charmaine Mangion and David Bonello (the Opposition's nominee). Th...

The Nationalist Party has nominated lawyer David Bonello to sit on the new Building and Construction Authority. Bonello is the lawyer representing the family of Miriam Pace in court. Pace was killed when her home in Ħamrun collapsed due to construction works at an adjacent site. In a statement on Friday, the PN said Bonello was nominated following consultation with Hermann Schiavone, its spokesperson on planning and construction. In a meeting with Opposition leader Bernard Grech, Bonello was asked to safeguard the interests of the industry but, above all, those of the neighbours of construct...

“The detection of an unbounded wall should ring an alarm bell,” he said. Did he fear something will collapse on him? Another court-appointed expert, Mario Buttigieg, testified about his conclusions after examining the accident site and finding the “hammer of the hymac [construction machinery] inserted in the rock, literally speaking.” Tracks on the ground indicated the semi-circular trajectory taken by the hydraulic excavator as it turned backwards, away from the wall beneath the Pace residence to the opposite side of the construction site. Buttigieg said that footage capturing the mo...

Confusing construction industry regulations partly to blame for Ħamrun house collapse, court hears Court appointed expert Architect Alex Torpiano testifies in court, saying that the house collapse that claimed the life of Miriam Pace was in part down to "the state of confusion" in industry regulations 26 February 2021, 4:40pm by Matthew Agius A leading architect has told a court that the collapse of a house in Ħamrun that claimed the life of Miriam Pace was partly down to “the state of confusion in the industry’s regulations.” Alex Torpiano was testifying in proceedings against the ...

Contractor involved in fatal Hamrun house collapse had track record of construction site accidents Contractor behind the Miriam Pace building collapse in Hamrun had been involved in several construction site accidents stretching back to 2002   25 February 2021, 12:23pm by Matthew Agius The construction company involved in the death of Hamrun house collapse victim Miriam Pace had been involved in a number of other alarming incidents, a court has heard.  This emerged in court as Magistrate Joe Mifsud presided over the compilation of evidence against two architects accused of Pace’s in...