In Japan we are having one construction scandal after the other.
The revolving door that killed a 6 year old boy in Mori’s Roppongi Hills in 2004. Last year the Aneha scandal, the architect who faked structural data on more than a hundred buildings. An interesting Blog about the scandal here. I wrote an article in the ACCJ Journal about this. My argument was that the system was as much to blame as the architect in question. You can download it here.

On June 3rd Schindler Elevators, was in the news as a 16 year old boy got stuck and was killed. It makes you want to check before entering a lift:
“Schindler Elevator KK, the Japanese subsidiary of the Swiss-based global elevator and escalator maker, said Tuesday there were a total of 320 cases in which passengers were trapped inside its elevators across Japan in 2004. Schindler Elevator said it is in charge of maintenance work for about 6,000 elevators nationwide. This means one out of every 19 Schindler elevators experienced a problem involving trapped passengers that year.” Source: Criss cross Japan
More here and here and a very detailed report in Wikipedia here (scroll down).
Schindler’s home page his this press release.