apparently buildings just fall over.

[Peterkaczynski]

thats crazy, the other ones look like they will fall over also

[Erick]

My pops has visited China. I highly doubt anyone nearby is moving out. The population in China is so excessive that he says that there is little to no regard for human life there. He was walking on the sidewalk by a construction zone and someone just dropped a huge concrete block on the sidewalk where many people were walking.

He says people just looked up for a second, and kept walking.

Over here the people responsible for that would be drowning in lawsuits.

[iamsam]

thats nucking futs, man!

[e30-RTN]

I thought when structures failed, they always fell into a nice neat pile of pulverized material.....:twisted:

nice one...


i see what you did there.

[mrsleeve]

Looks like the sub grading under the footings and the slab on the side of the building in the direction that it fell. Did not get compacted enough and settled, or the ground underneath the work was really soft and was not dug out to a sufficient depth and replaced with good sand to a sufficient depth and width to support the weight of the building. Also looks like the footings on the building were not wide nor deep enough for a building of that size as well as the lack of pileing down far enough to get to good ground.

Its got plenty of Rebar in it, its the only reason its still in the shape of a building not a pile of rubble. Look at how wet it is, I bet they are building on a swamp or other low wet fill area and the site was not prepped properly for the amount of rain that area gets

[Miasma]

The building fell Saturday morning a day after about 83 metres (272 feet) of the nearby riverbank collapsed, apparently due to the construction of an underground parking garage being built on the site, the report said

Oh jesus.

[mrsleeve]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Or some one dug underneath or along side of it LOL that would do it too

[thereisnoyun]

My pops has visited China. I highly doubt anyone nearby is moving out. The population in China is so excessive that he says that there is little to no regard for human life there. He was walking on the sidewalk by a construction zone and someone just dropped a huge concrete block on the sidewalk where many people were walking.

He says people just looked up for a second, and kept walking.

Over here the people responsible for that would be drowning in lawsuits.

over here if the population is the same as China, it would be the same thing.

yes no value for life because of over population. We see that example developing in the united states as well. Not enough jobs to meet the demand.

We need another world war to control the human population. Yes... its very radical, but it is a problem that will eventually turn into a world war whether we like it or not.

[87e30]

+1 for china.

[Atreus]

wait, was it those damn prairie dogs..............

[Pudmunkie]

My pops has visited China. I highly doubt anyone nearby is moving out. The population in China is so excessive that he says that there is little to no regard for human life there. He was walking on the sidewalk by a construction zone and someone just dropped a huge concrete block on the sidewalk where many people were walking.

He says people just looked up for a second, and kept walking.

Over here the people responsible for that would be drowning in lawsuits.

No regard for human life is a bit much, things are just different. The mind set is more "you're in an area people are working You should be paying attention" Its the same reasoning behind 4 ft ledges without guard rails - pay attention!

Though this sort of thing doesn't surprise me, unless you're going to pay the big bucks to live in an expat targeted complex a lot of the construction is shady.

To qualify my statements: My family lived in Shanghai for 3 years and my brother for 4 as ex-pats. I've spent upwards of 6 months there over three years and seen a lot of these types of buildings up close.

[tg318is]

Looks like the sub grading under the footings and the slab on the side of the building in the direction that it fell. Did not get compacted enough and settled, or the ground underneath the work was really soft and was not dug out to a sufficient depth and replaced with good sand to a sufficient depth and width to support the weight of the building. Also looks like the footings on the building were not wide nor deep enough for a building of that size as well as the lack of pileing down far enough to get to good ground.

This

[ThePotsy]

supposedly in shanghai. pretty crazy.

I think it's crazier that they actually have buildings that don't collapse.

[Raxe]

Probably one of those new fangled viral marketing schemes. What will they think of next!

[Old'n'Slow]

I think it's crazier that they actually have buildings that don't collapse.

Buildings don't generally just fall to pieces. Even when they're on fire. We've been media-conditioned to believe that fire can kill steel frame buildings, even though every steel frame building in history (before 9/11) that had a fire-some even over multiple floors for over 24 hours didn't fall down!

This building suffered a foundation failure and the building tipped over. Like physics dictated it would. :up: