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#1 User is offline   Aptorian 

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Posted 28 June 2009 - 10:38 AM

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<li>Building Collapsed In Shanghai (06/27/2009) (Daqi)
At around 5:30am on June 27, an unoccupied building still under construction at Lianhuanan Road in the Minxing district of Shanghai city toppled over. One worker was killed. According to information, a 70 meter section of the flood prevention wall in nearby Dianpu River and that may have something to do with this building collapse.



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Posted 28 June 2009 - 10:42 AM

Too... much... fail!

Can't... stop... laughing!!!!!!!
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 10:45 AM

knew i should have leaned against something else.
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 11:02 AM

It looks so strange. From the look of these pictures, there never was a foundation going deep into ground. It's like the just started building it on a flat surface.

All the things sticking out look to be sewage pipes, but there's no obvious support beams of concrete or steel.
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 12:48 PM

Thunderbirds comes to mind...

It's weird how intact it is. I reckoned it would have exploded outwards when it hit the ground.
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 02:45 PM

I've heard China has shitty building codes.

But really, it looks like they just cleared off a space of dirt and built it on top of it. Stupid chinese.
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 02:55 PM

They've done it wrong!!
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 03:35 PM

Macros was standing on the roof, fingerpainting one side of the building, and the weight of his hands tipped the whole thing over...

...obviously.
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 03:53 PM

for this catastrophe,

I blame Brood.

obviously....
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 06:33 PM

Look at fallen building. Look at the two right next to it. Would YOU want to live there?
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 06:51 PM

View PostAptorian, on Jun 28 2009, 04:02 AM, said:

It looks so strange. From the look of these pictures, there never was a foundation going deep into ground. It's like the just started building it on a flat surface.

All the things sticking out look to be sewage pipes, but there's no obvious support beams of concrete or steel.


Those look to be reinforced concrete piles, missing the reinforcing. Without the reinforcing they have failed, which is no big surprise.

View PostSlow Ben, on Jun 28 2009, 07:45 AM, said:

I've heard China has shitty building codes.

But really, it looks like they just cleared off a space of dirt and built it on top of it. Stupid chinese.


The problem is probably more to do with corruption and shoddy building practices than codes. There was a case a year or two ago of a Chinese bridge collapsing during construction that was later determined to be caused by the contractor leaving out half of the specfied rebar to save money. Paying off officials was cheaper than the rebar, until the bridge collapsed and the contractors were executed. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this was a similar situation.
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 07:10 PM

Those dudes that live in the next building will never get contents insurance now!
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 07:11 PM

View PostGwynn ap Nudd, on Jun 28 2009, 01:51 PM, said:

The problem is probably more to do with corruption and shoddy building practices than codes. There was a case a year or two ago of a Chinese bridge collapsing during construction that was later determined to be caused by the contractor leaving out half of the specfied rebar to save money. Paying off officials was cheaper than the rebar, until the bridge collapsed and the contractors were executed. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this was a similar situation.

Wow, I kinda wish we had laws like that when all the sharks came in after Hurricane Katrina...

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Posted 28 June 2009 - 07:15 PM

chinese handiwork, what would you expect?
only there will you find a freshly built Holiday Inn hotel where the window hinges are already rotten and, also, the windows open outwards. not to mention cracks in the walls.

can't trust anything being made in that country, nope
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 07:32 PM

View PostGothos, on Jun 28 2009, 09:15 PM, said:

the windows open outwards.


Did you mean inwards? because I'm pretty sure most windows open "out" here in Denmark.
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 07:34 PM

Who gives a shit? A damned building fell over and it looks like lego-land fake.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
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Posted 29 June 2009 - 07:41 AM

Maybe it's a frat prank.

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Posted 29 June 2009 - 08:51 AM

View PostAptorian, on Jun 28 2009, 07:32 PM, said:

View PostGothos, on Jun 28 2009, 09:15 PM, said:

the windows open outwards.


Did you mean inwards? because I'm pretty sure most windows open "out" here in Denmark.


and I thought of moving there...
I mean, windows opening outwards... that's a disaster waiting to happen
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Posted 29 June 2009 - 09:47 AM

seems to be like next to no foundation.

epic engineering FAIL
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Why dont they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?
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Posted 29 June 2009 - 10:56 AM

View PostGothos, on Jun 29 2009, 09:51 AM, said:

View PostAptorian, on Jun 28 2009, 07:32 PM, said:

View PostGothos, on Jun 28 2009, 09:15 PM, said:

the windows open outwards.


Did you mean inwards? because I'm pretty sure most windows open "out" here in Denmark.


and I thought of moving there...
I mean, windows opening outwards... that's a disaster waiting to happen


Why would you want windows to open inward? That would just make the room feel smaller...
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