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We had a local incident a few years ago where the roof of a shopping centre collapsed during renovation, killing multiple people. Not much info in English about
by PeterisP 6y ago
We had a local incident a few years ago where the roof of a shopping centre collapsed during renovation, killing multiple people. Not much info in English about it to quote, but one of the legal consequences was conviction of the structural engineer who signed off without proper verification the changes to a key construction element that made it insufficiently sturdy for the load. He was sentenced to six years jail for violation of construction regulations and manslaughter by negligence.
In general, if a bridge/building goes down due to a honest mistake, that would not result in criminal charges, however, the planning and approval process is designed so that simple mistakes by a single person don't result in such failures, and it needs some clear violation of the process - not doing a mandated re-verification of calculations someone else made, faking some signatures of approval, intentionally skipping parts of process or change documentation, etc; those are unethical acts which make you criminally liable if they result in actual harm to people.