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Entire New 13-story building tips over in Shanghai
Gizmodo ^ | 30 Jun 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Posted on 07/01/2009 1:39:39 AM PDT by Cronos

This past Saturday, an entire apartment building in Shanghai collapsed. To be fair, the building was under construction and thus unoccupied, but it's still a minor miracle that there was only one fatality.

Sounds like there was a problem with some nearby flood prevention walls at the Dianpu River, but there's no hard evidence as to why this huge building simply fell over. Anyway, here are some sweet pictures of the architectural carnage. [Cellar.org via Twitter]



Architecture, Building falls over, Shanghai, Apartment, China, Dianpu river, fail, buildings, collapse



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: china; construction; financialcrisis; shanghai
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ha ha ha ha
1 posted on 07/01/2009 1:39:39 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

We don’t have 13 storey buildings here for a reason ...


2 posted on 07/01/2009 1:45:50 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Cronos
Errr, foundations anyone?

After the earthquake in China, and the decamation of structures, methinks the Government would get a grip on building regulations.

You can see the mud on the bottom of the concrete base, what the hell, is building high rise in China something like this?:

1: Mow the grass for a nice flat surface.
2: Spray a bit of weedkiller to stop weed regrowth.
3: Knock up a bit of shuttering out of old floorboards, then pour concrete.
4: Repeat step 3 for every higher storey required.

[**note to self, NEVER buy property built in or by Chinese builders**]
3 posted on 07/01/2009 1:57:17 AM PDT by bethybabes69 (Between you, and whatever you call God, there is no authority, only an illusion of it.)
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To: All

And another thing, those buildings in the photo, behind the fallen one are identical, hmmm, I’m wondering how long before they succumb to the power of gravity?


4 posted on 07/01/2009 1:59:38 AM PDT by bethybabes69 (Between you, and whatever you call God, there is no authority, only an illusion of it.)
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To: BunnySlippers

The building originally had 14 floors, but that’s another story.


5 posted on 07/01/2009 2:00:23 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Cronos

FAIL


6 posted on 07/01/2009 2:01:17 AM PDT by Siouxz
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To: bethybabes69

Where is the rebar? Where are the anchor plates? What a lot of fun to be a builder in Shanghai. No building codes that work, easy to payoff the building inspectors (apparently) and too bad for everyone else...


7 posted on 07/01/2009 2:05:24 AM PDT by x_plus_one ("Salvation comes about though change in individual lives, not through the ending of unjust society")
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To: x_plus_one

Unless the building contractor has the right friends he is likely to get a bullet in his ear.


8 posted on 07/01/2009 2:13:46 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Cronos
You gotta wonder what the people in these buildings are thinking, lol

9 posted on 07/01/2009 2:16:48 AM PDT by politicalamity
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To: bethybabes69

We spent some time in China (this has been several years ago)...but we were amazed at their construction methods. They did, at that time, heavily rely on manpower instead of machinery. A construction site would look like an anthill with people swarming everywhere on bamboo scaffolding.) We even saw big highways being built and very little construction equipment on site, just lots of guys with wheelbarrows and shovels.) The 600 sq ft bedroom addition on our home has a better slab and rebar that that 13 storey building.


10 posted on 07/01/2009 2:24:05 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: Cronos

that’s not a building, that’s a falling


11 posted on 07/01/2009 2:26:31 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: Cronos
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See? And after everyone was paid, it worked out just fine
12 posted on 07/01/2009 2:31:14 AM PDT by MaxMax (America's population is 304-Million. Obama must punish America for the other 4.7 Billion)
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To: Cronos

Nice photos.


13 posted on 07/01/2009 2:32:11 AM PDT by VicVega (Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in the world. I love the USA)
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To: Cronos

People bitch about building inspectors and codes in this country.

This is why we have building inspectors and codes in this country.


14 posted on 07/01/2009 2:57:33 AM PDT by bondjamesbond
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bttt


15 posted on 07/01/2009 3:00:48 AM PDT by Tares
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To: Cronos

Let me guess.....was it Made in China?


16 posted on 07/01/2009 3:17:13 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Cronos

Save this


17 posted on 07/01/2009 3:24:23 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: bethybabes69

I know an American couple living deep inside China right now. They reported no buildings in their city of one million people are over two stories high. Most of the buildings do not even use re-bar steel inside their structural concrete. This is one reason earthquakes shake many Chinese buildings into rubble.


18 posted on 07/01/2009 3:58:24 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: Cronos

Considering how largely undamaged the building is, it must have tipped over in slow-mo. You can see the pilings sticking out of the base of the building, like a carrot plucked out of a garden bed. I’d bet the pilings simply were not deep enough to be stable in the earth.

I’d advise people living in the neighboring apartment houses to not all stand on the same side of the building at any one time. Their apartment house could tip over!


19 posted on 07/01/2009 4:28:26 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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To: Cronos

“Single story luxury apartments with sky lights in each unit for sale”


20 posted on 07/01/2009 4:29:09 AM PDT by TheRake
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