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Watch Staying InThose Chinese Apartment Buildings!
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tony barnhill
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Re: Watch Staying InThose Chinese Apartment Buildi
Given enough time, it would've.swift6 said:
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Yeah but so will a Redwood. Point being, it was caught beforehand. It seemed to be a geographic (where it was built)miscalculation rather than a error in construction (how it was built). Regardless...
"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." - C.S. Lewis
tony barnhill said:
Yeah but so will a Redwood. Point being, it was caught beforehand. It seemed to be a geographic (where it was built)miscalculation rather than a error in construction (how it was built). Regardless...
"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." - C.S. Lewis
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I agree with it being built on bad ground, But I disagree with the idea that bad construction wasn't also at fault. You don't put a 13 story building on non-re-enforced concrete pilings, nor do you only sink them 10 to 15 feet in the ground. You sink them 30 up to 80 feet in the ground, depending on the soil make up and if their concrete they must be fully re-enforced with re-bar, vertical and rings. Very shoddy work that someone thought they could hide. Fortunately they weren't occupied and only one worker was killed instead of hundreds of people. 40 years in the business and I thought I've seen it all, but that's a first for me.
swift6 said:
I agree with it being built on bad ground, But I disagree with the idea that bad construction wasn't also at fault. You don't put a 13 story building on non-re-enforced concrete pilings, nor do you only sink them 10 to 15 feet in the ground. You sink them 30 up to 80 feet in the ground, depending on the soil make up and if their concrete they must be fully re-enforced with re-bar, vertical and rings. Very shoddy work that someone thought they could hide. Fortunately they weren't occupied and only one worker was killed instead of hundreds of people. 40 years in the business and I thought I've seen it all, but that's a first for me.
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Paul,
You seem to be talking about the ones in China. I think Shawn was talking about the one in the US.
Paul,
You seem to be talking about the ones in China. I think Shawn was talking about the one in the US.
