Collapse of buildings. What are the signs that should alert you?

Four years after the collapse of buildings in Marseille, a similar tragedy occurred last weekend in Lille. One person died in this disaster. More serious casualties were avoided thanks to the intervention of three students who alerted the city police and firefighters, who evacuated one of the two buildings. “At 3 o’clock a young man came home and realized that the wall (of the building) was twisted“And the door is open,” said Martin Aubry, the mayor of Lille, who was on the ground Monday. Until the first results of the investigation, we know that it was the load-bearing wall between the two buildings that buckled before collapsing, taking the two buildings with it.

If the buildings in Marseille are plagued by disrepair and unhealthiness, this is not the case with two buildings in Lille that have collapsed, according to the Housing Minister. Though “Health files 110 to 130 cause problems that can lead to life ban“, – emphasizes Martin Aubrey. “No one could have predicted this tragedy. There were no warning signs“Says Olivier Klein, who announced the creation of a research mission to find out the causes of the collapse. The idea is not to fall into catastrophism, because, as Christine Leconte, president of the National Council of the Order of Architects, reminds us, these collapses are in the very minority, but on the contrary, to give advice so that it is even. more careful.