PWD officers jolted by computer lab conditions ..HL: ..IN: JI NR.

(From New Straits Times (Malaysia))

KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. - Conditions at some of the troubled school computer laboratories in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia had reached such a state, that teachers were forced to use objects around them to prop up sagging roofs.

This was one among many frightening sights that greeted Public Works Department (PWD) officers when they checked the labs following the collapse of a computer laboratory roof in Bera, Pahang in March.

PWD director-general Tan Sri Zaini Omar said other defects uncovered in investigations were the use of inferior materials, wrong bolts and low grades of timber for the roofs.

Some roofs had also developed cracks, indicating that they could collapse anytime.