Well this one cracked me up….
A residential apartment toppled and fell on the ground in china like some Lego building blocks
Some pictures will add some insight to it.
(1) An underground garage was being dug on the south side, to a depth of 4.6 meters
(2) The excavated dirt was being piled up on the north side, to a height of 10 meters
(3) The building experienced uneven lateral pressure from south and north
(4) This resulted in a lateral pressure of 3,000 tonnes, which was greater than why the pilings could tolerate. Thus the building toppled over in the southerly direction.
Click on the pictures to enlarge them.
When i had a first look at the pictures i thought some earth quake hit it or Tsunami hit it.A closer look made me think as if it was hit by a bomb or as if godzilla hit it or probably it was some kind of king king that hit it.
It is hard to believe that it was just water that caused it to fall down.
How stupid can that construction company be ???
- King kong hit the building???
- Was it Godzilla ?
No it was Chinese engineering.
They can’t even make proper building to stay….They want to copy Indian bikes and sell it to the world.Huh!
I mean how can a building fall…. This just proves my point over and over again.
“The Chinese are goons and their product is junk”
Some reports from the Chinese news paper.
The Govt of China suppressed this news as usual
Some links of the article
Improper construction methods are believed to be the reason of last Saturday’s building collapse in Shanghai, according to a report from the investigation team. The investigation team’s report said that workers dug an underground garage on one side of the building while on the other side earth was heaped up to 10 meters high, which was apparently an error in construction, according to a report on eastday.com, Shanghai’s official news website. “Any construction company with common sense would not make such a mistake,” said an expert from the investigation team.
Earlier this week, there were also reports saying that cracks on the flood-prevention wall near the building, as well as the special geological condition in the water bank area, may be part of the reason for the collapse. “These factors are not the basic reason of this accident,” said the expert.
Nine people linked to the building collapse, including the real estate developer, contractor and the supervisor for the project, have been put “under appropriate control”, said the official Xinhua News Agency Sunday evening.
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Firm’s ignorance led to toppling of Shanghai building, report says By Will Clem and Lillian Zhang. July 4, 2009.
An official investigation into the collapse of an unfinished building in Shanghai has said that the accident was due to the construction company’s “ignorance”, rather than flaws in the design or building materials. However, the report stopped short of apportioning blame, and has been criticised for failing to address key issues.
The report said the collapse was caused by earth, excavated to make a 4.6-metre deep pit for an underground car park alongside the building, being piled to depths of up to 10 metres on the other side of the structure. The weight of the pile created a “pressure differential” which led to a shift in the soil structure, eventually weakening the foundations and causing them to fail. This situation “may” have been aggravated by several days of heavy rain leading up to the collapse, but investigators would not say whether this was a crucial factor. The report said the construction company – Shanghai Zhongxin Construction – “did not consider clearly” that the earth pile could have such a devastating effect.
Investigators stopped short of saying whether the company’s errors were negligent or easily avoidable. However, they stressed that the building’s foundations and construction materials all complied with the city’s building regulations.
Huang Rong , director of the Shanghai Urban Construction and Communications Council, said inspections had shown that none of the remaining 10 apartment blocks was in immediate danger. “The surrounding buildings are now stable,” he said. “The safety inspection of these homes will be the second phase of our professional team’s work.”
Jiang Huancheng , an architect and a lead investigator for the report, said it had been an “enormous shock” to see the site for the first time. “In my 46 years in the industry, I have never seen or heard of this,” he said. “To put it simply this was ignorance leading to rashness. We need to take this accident as an important lesson … and ensure that it does not happen again.”
Several days before the release of the report, Wu Hang , Mr Jiang’s assistant, accused the construction company of incompetence and lacking “common sense”. Mr Wu said the investigation had found there had been no structures to support the walls of the car park pit, and this had been a key factor contributing to the accident.
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So if are planning to buy house in China then please think again, and again.
This gives a whole new meaning to the poem
“london bridge is falling down,
falling down,
falling down,
london bridge is falling down,
My fair lady,”
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