Pumapayam Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 In the weekend's bizarrest news, a nearly finished, newly constructed building in Shanghai toppled over, killing one worker. As can be seen in the photo below, the 13-story apartment building collapsed ... TIMBER!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cottonmather0 Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 China is scary - everybody is corrupt and there's no rule of law to enforce building codes or safety laws or any kind of regulation, really. The government ultimately isn't accountable to the people, so why would they ever care about public safety?This kind of stuff happens all the time over there, just not as dramatically or visibly as this particular incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 It just fell over which is unusual, buildings don't fall over like that and someone made some awesome windows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 UPupupup... great new pics... mind sharing the article they came from ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 I'd argue that this building is actually pretty well built. Even after toppling over it looks pretty intact. Maybe they over-engineered the building and under-engineered the foundation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 UPupupup... great new pics... mind sharing the article they came from ?Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownWxBoy Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I'd argue that this building is actually pretty well built. Even after toppling over it looks pretty intact. Maybe they over-engineered the building and under-engineered the foundation.I was thinking the same thing... it seems like the foundation gave way on one side or something and it just tipped over. Wow that is crazy! Imagine if it was full of people!The development, known as Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Communist engineers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxmulder Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 "made in china" that's all one can say. We've all had cheap Chinese crap break after 1 or 2 uses... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groovehouse Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 EPIC FALL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Got Rebar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Timmy Chan's Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 An email I got today said they're investigating the possibility that a retaining wall separating the river from this building's foundation failed.That actually makes some sense...the ground would literally have to give way for a building like this to simply fall over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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