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Nine held over Shanghai building collapse

 

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A general view of a toppled 13-storey apartment building that buried one worker in Shanghai. Photo: Reuters

 

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Somehow I can picture construction foreman...Cosmo Kramer, watching the building slowly falling over...looking around to see if anyone was paying attention to him, and running off up the sidewalk.

 

GIDDY-UP!!!! :greenblob:

 

tsap seui

LMAO ... that would have been a great episode!!

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Nine held over Shanghai building collapse

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01432/china_1432267c.jpg

A general view of a toppled 13-storey apartment building that buried one worker in Shanghai. Photo: Reuters

 

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...g-collapse.html

 

Somehow I can picture construction foreman...Cosmo Kramer, watching the building slowly falling over...looking around to see if anyone was paying attention to him, and running off up the sidewalk.

 

GIDDY-UP!!!! :rolleyes:

 

tsap seui

So Tsap Seui, which one was your new digs. The top floor :o , which is now the ground floor......

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Looks like they used drain pipes for the foundation.. about 8 feet into the soft loam... then, up they went!

 

Bad news is that all who invested in the Humpty Dumpty building are going to lose everything.

 

Good news is that rather spectacularly buys are soon going to be available in the two buildings behind it!

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Kind of makes you wonder how the buildings will "Stand Up" to an earth quake?

 

I can understand floating a single story home on a slab, but not a 13 story apartment building, a building like that needs a proper foundation with pilings driven down to bedrock, and the parking garage and all below ground structures around the entire complex needed to be built first before the buildings go up.

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Some pictures:

 

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Did this building even have a foundation? Strange to have fallen over as neat as it did.

That's the question several of us were asking. SHould have been about 3 or 4 floors worth of basements. Where is it?

It doesn't even have to be a basement there. All it needs is pilings driven down to bedrock as dnoblett said. They can even be wooden pilings of a rot resistant wood. Many old and even new build have these types of foundations.

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If you look close at this picture you can see where the building just sits on the "footing" foundation. It seems that they rely on the weight of the building to keep it in place. Poured Concrete buildings, need special attention to the curing process to avoid,cracking, mold and moisture. In Xing Tai they are selling 2-3 bedroom condos in buildings like these for 50,000-80,000 USD unfinished, these pictures make me wonder of the overall quality of the building.

 

 

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The family of the lone migrant worker killed in the collapse is receiving 775,000 RMB in compensation... <_<

 

 

 

About half what it cost to buy an apartment in the complex... :huh:

They still go for that much with it laying on the ground? :blink:

 

Pre-collapse pricing... :rolleyes:

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