According to the court expert, the collapse of the house in Tábor was caused by the designers

Tábor - According to the court expert, the collapse of a residential building in Tábor last year was caused by the designers. The house fell during the construction of a multipurpose building on the neighboring plot. The builders mistakenly thought that the entire residential building had a basement based on the project. During the excavation at the foundation of the house, the less-reinforced gable wall then collapsed. The indictment accuses thirty-three-year-old construction manager Miloš Filip of endangering the public, as he allegedly did not follow the project documentation during the construction of the neighboring building and did not call a structural engineer.
According to court expert Tomáš Vaněk, the designers had the original drawing of the house from 1935 at their disposal. "They could have looked at the drawing, which clearly showed that it did not have a basement, and conducted a probe. It was all realistic, they could have included it in the project, and the contractor would have done it, and this would not have occurred at all," Vaněk told ČTK.
The collapsed part of the house had previously been an archway, which was stopped during reconstruction in the 1980s. The foundation of the gable wall lay only about 1.5 meters deep and was made of inferior masonry. However, the construction project assumed that the foundations of the house lay around the entire perimeter at a depth of four meters. When digging the excavation at the gable wall, the builders of the neighboring construction requested a structural engineer the day before the house collapsed, but the next day they continued digging the foundations, stated another court expert Jiří Samec in court. Proper securing of the wall, according to him, would have delayed the neighboring construction by months and would have cost several million more.
A part of the house on Jeronýmova Street, belonging to Rybářství Tábor, collapsed on May 4 last year. No one was injured; all the residents managed to escape in time. The tragedy was averted by sixteen-year-old resident Miloš Paťha, who noticed the cracking seam, rang all the doorbells, and all the tenants ran outside. Within minutes, a part of the house collapsed. There were 14 people living in the house, including six children. One wall collapsed along with parts of the apartments on all three floors of the building. The damage to the collapsed house, which was built in the 1930s and reconstructed about 25 years ago, exceeded 3.8 million crowns.
The court today postponed the main hearing to July 17. It intends to supplement the evidence with additional documents and witness testimonies.