The Jet Set ceiling collapsed on Tuesday morning in the middle of the popular singer Rubby Pérez, who died with more than 200 people in one of the greatest tragedies in this country.
Why did it collapse? The Government promised that An investigation will follow rescue work.
“I had no structure”
Raúl Galván was looking for news from his son -in -law Wilton Patita, 40. He waited with his daughter Luz María (36) sitting next to the Patita car, who is still in the parking lot where he parked to go to the concert. “We are desperate,” Galván, 58, told AFP.
“You have to do an exhaustive research“, He demanded.” It is seen that he had no structure, he had no rods and that is why he collapsed. “
Experts agree
The Jet Set was 52 years old. It worked since 1994 in A building built to house a cinema.
It was a double height structure and black walls. From the air you can see the hole that left the roof collapsed and in the middle air conditioning machines and electric plants that weighed tons.
“Imagine that you climb two or three cement covers of 42.5 kg in the head… The feet are not going to endure, ”said Persio Díaz, professor in Civil Engineering at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD).” If you overload a structure will not bear you. “
Previous fire
Inside the Jet Set: a large living room, with an illuminated dance floor, mirrors, as well as large and heavy speakers and light games.
The Aza Garivalddy architect analyzed the roof slab on Instagram, “huge, without a single column that will relieve the load “ of the structure. “The roof collapsed by its own weight.”
Nor did I have Thick columns on the sides, he said.
“The supports were not enough to resist charges,” Diaz said, indicating that “Time can also produce corrosion in steels“
The disco reported a fire in 2023 after lightning impact the electrical plant of the establishment. The firefighters then ruled out that the building was committed.
“When a work like that was accused of a high fire, the durability of concrete mainly It is very reducing“, Said the teacher.” It becomes a kind of weak concrete. “
Moisture in this city coast can also affect materialshe said.
“Supervision”
The disco It had capacity for 700 people at tables and about 1 thousand footbut “he lacked circulation, emergency doors,” said Juan Villar González, former president of the Dominican College of Engineers.
AZA estimated “Lack of planning in building growth“
“There has been little supervision“Villar said, which is necessary to a round table between authorities and experts to study what happened and prevent tragedies like this.