Update on preliminary assessment by DPWI professional engineering team | parliament fire
7 January 2021
In consultation with the HAWKS, an internal DPWI professional team comprising of highly skilled Structural, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical engineers have conducted and concluded a high level preliminary visual assessment of the damages including the safety aspect of the site due to the recent fire at Parliament. The team arrived in Cape Town on Monday morning 3 January 2022.
Parliament and SAPS provided access to the Engineers this week for the inside walk inspection of the Old and New Assembly.
Unfortunately due to the high temperatures in the building on Monday 3 January 2022 and the flare up on the side of the National Assembly around 17h00 which continued right through the night, the professional team could only commence with their assessment late Tuesday 4 January 2022 afternoon.
The professional team’s visual assessment started with the Old National Assembly and then proceeded to assess the structural damages on the New National Assembly.