Abstract
In April 1995 a viewing platform near the Paparoa National Park in the South Island of New Zealand collapsed sending 17 students from a Greymouth polytechnic and a national park ranger into the 30 m deep Cave Creek gorge. Thirteen students and the park ranger died. The New Zealand government set up a Commission of Inquiry into the collapse. The report of this Commission found that the primary cause of the collapse was that the platform was not constructed in accordance with sound building practice. However the Commission also found six secondary causes of the collapse, the underlying one being that there was no proper project management system in the government department responsible for the construction of the viewing platform. The paper details the findings of the Commission of Inquiry with respect to the structural failure of the platform and the systemic failure within the New Zealand Department of Conservation at the time.
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