A week had passed since the incident, and the construction of the small apartment complex had already moved into the next stage: the ground-floor columns and slab.
The foundation work was finished and buried beneath the earth, hidden from view but supporting everything above it.
Thick concrete columns now rose from the ground in orderly rows, with steel reinforcing bars protruding from the tops like exposed bones, a clear sign that the structure was still far from complete.
Some of the columns were wrapped in wooden formwork, while workers moved constantly across the site.
A few were tying steel reinforcement together with practiced hands. Others hauled materials from one corner to another, and several operated heavy machinery with the ease of long experience.
The noise never stopped.
Excavators rumbled, cement mixers churned, and men shouted instructions back and forth over the mechanical roar.
