Private reform caused structural instability?
Suspected violation of the auxiliary room into the guest room?
Many people have missed the registration of the occupants?
The serial violations behind the collapse of the Suzhou hotel
As of 9:00 on July 14, the search and rescue work for the collapse of the auxiliary building of the Four Seasons Kaiyuan Hotel, No. 188, Youche Road, Songling Town, Wujiang District, Suzhou City, has been completed.
After full search and rescue, all the missing persons have been rescued.
A total of 23 trapped persons were searched out, of which 17 were killed, 5 injured persons were treated with stable vital signs, and 1 person returned home without injury.
On July 13, the cause of the accident was preliminarily determined: it was due to the proprietor’s privately renovating the house structure.
The relevant person in charge of the Fire Design Inspection Section of the Wujiang District Housing and Urban-rural Construction Bureau stated on the morning of July 14 that the decoration of the Four Seasons Kaiyuan Hotel had not undergone relevant approval procedures and had not filed with the housing construction department.
At present, the State Council Safety Committee has decided to set up a supervision team to supervise the investigation and handling of the accident.
A 60-year-old resident witnessed the accident.
According to his memories, at around 3 pm on July 12, the auxiliary room of the hotel collapsed quickly like a "disconnected line".
Bricks and stones fell continuously and smoke and dust were everywhere on the scene.
He has a better understanding of the structure of Four Seasons Open Source Hotel.
"The main building of the hotel has 4 floors, and the first floor is the banquet hall. The auxiliary rooms that collapsed have 3 floors, and there are accommodation rooms in the building."
This is a hotel that has been renamed and changed owners several times. Searching on public platforms such as Baidu Maps showed that the building was once hung with the sign of "Shanhu Hotel", and later it became "Junyuan Hotel" and "Finiu Hotel". ".
Four Seasons Kaiyuan Hotel began operations in 2020 and belongs to Suzhou Four Seasons Kaiyuan Catering Management Service Co., Ltd. The company was established in March 2020.
The nearby residents are no strangers to this building, which has existed for nearly 30 years, but they don't know the specific structure and decoration of the auxiliary building.
A trapped person said when he was rescued that his companions were trapped.
At that time, his location was the bathroom, and his companion was in the bedroom.
He kept shouting during the trap, but his companion did not respond.
On July 13, at a press conference on the rescue situation of a hotel collapse in Wujiang District, Suzhou City, Chen Zhiang, deputy director of the Fire Fighting and Rescue Command of the Jiangsu Fire Brigade, once stated: "By the time the rescue team arrived at the scene of the accident, the auxiliary building of the 3-story hotel had collapsed as a whole. An'A' shape was formed in the middle of the collapse, and the north and south sides collapsed in a crushing manner, burying people under pressure, and the rescue environment was very complicated and very unfavorable."
Under what reasons will the building collapse as a whole?
An expert in the field of construction engineering told reporters that if the building collapses as a whole, it means that the building has structural instability.
The cause of instability may be the impact of external forces such as earthquakes and explosions, or the load bearing the building is too large, exceeding its own bearing capacity, and the structure of the building is damaged and cannot reach the design bearing capacity. Building additional floors privately can also easily cause collapse due to excessive load.
The auxiliary room of the accident hotel is undergoing "private reform".
Gao Ming (pseudonym) is a professor of hotel management in a university.
He told the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter that the auxiliary rooms of the hotel are generally used for equipment operations, logistics storage, etc., and can also be used as employee dormitories, but must meet the corresponding housing standards.
Many practitioners in the hotel industry also told reporters that the auxiliary rooms of the hotel cannot be used for guest room operations and can only be transformed into guest rooms unless there are formal procedures.
The relevant person in charge of the Fire Design Inspection Section of the Wujiang District Housing and Urban-rural Construction Bureau responded to the media today that the decoration of the Four Seasons Kaiyuan Hotel did not go through the relevant approval procedures and did not report to the housing construction department for record.
A hotel industry official pointed out that in addition to the subsequent renovation and the cause of the collapse, whether the auxiliary building of the Four Seasons Kaiyuan Hotel was constructed in compliance or illegally in the past, this issue also needs to be investigated.
Gao Ming found that the collapse accidents in the hotel industry in recent years are directly related to illegal construction and illegal renovation of buildings.
According to Mu Lin, associate professor of Qingdao Hotel Management College, in recent years, the entire commercial real estate and property rental prices have risen, coupled with the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the profitability of the hotel industry has declined. "Some companies may not make much money and hope to expand through illegal expansion. , Reconstruction and expansion of the operating area to obtain profits."
In addition to the specific circumstances of the private renovation that needs to be investigated, another situation is also worthy of attention: the hotel has missed check-in personnel.
Chen Zhiang introduced at the press conference that the location of the buried personnel is mainly determined based on the accommodation information provided by the police.
According to official sources, according to the hotel’s check-in information, 18 trapped persons were found in the early stage. After further analysis and screening of various new information, it was found that there were 5 unregistered information persons trapped at that time.
Article 56 of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Public Security Administration Penalties stipulates that if the staff of the hotel industry fails to register the name, ID type and number of the guest staying in the hotel, or knowing that the guest who stays at the hotel brings dangerous substances into the hotel, If it is not stopped, a fine of not less than 200 yuan but not more than 500 yuan shall be imposed.
The accident once again caused people to pay attention to and think about hotel safety. How to avoid similar accidents from happening again?
Gao Ming said that hotel operators should strictly abide by the "Hotel Safety Management Regulations", and relevant departments should also conduct frequent inspections and inspections as required to eliminate hidden dangers in time.
Li Xiang, deputy dean of IDM Hotel Research Institute, suggested that when selecting a hotel location, not only should the decoration cost of the hotel be considered, but also the safety of the hotel’s building structure should be considered. The hotel’s building structure should be inspected regularly to ensure safety in advance. Plan.
Li Xiang also pointed out that if the hotel wants to renovate the building, it must ask a professional team to evaluate the carrying capacity, and the original building needs to be structurally reinforced to suit future business activities.
Mullin pointed out that once an accident occurs, the brand side can be considered for joint and several liability for the franchised hotels, so as to regulate or even curb irrational expansion behavior to a certain extent. "The management side cannot collect money and leave. That’s it".
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Zhao Li Mei Ningdi Source: China Youth Daily