whome? Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 http://www.audiovision.co.uk/images/telegraphLogo.gif Nine held over Shanghai building collapse http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01432/china_1432267c.jpgA general view of a toppled 13-storey apartment building that buried one worker in Shanghai. Photo: Reuters ." 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!!!! tsap seuiLMAO ... that would have been a great episode!! Link to comment
dnoblett Posted July 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 I wonder what it sounded like. Link to comment
HKG Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Some pictures: Did this building even have a foundation? Strange to have fallen over as neat as it did. Link to comment
Corbin Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 http://www.audiovision.co.uk/images/telegraphLogo.gif Nine held over Shanghai building collapse http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01432/china_1432267c.jpgA general view of a toppled 13-storey apartment building that buried one worker in Shanghai. Photo: Reuters ." 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!!!! tsap seuiSo Tsap Seui, which one was your new digs. The top floor , which is now the ground floor...... Link to comment
knloregon Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 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! Link to comment
dnoblett Posted July 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 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. Link to comment
Yuanyang Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 (edited) Some pictures: 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? Edited July 2, 2009 by Yuanyang (see edit history) Link to comment
Corbin Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Some pictures: 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. Link to comment
HKG Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 (edited) 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. Edited July 3, 2009 by HKG (see edit history) Link to comment
knloregon Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Yeah, but you gotta like the quality of Chinese plate glass----I don't see any broken windows..... Link to comment
Dennis143 Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 US earthquake building codes require that buildings are anchored to concrete pillars that are piledriven into bedrock. http://books.google.com/books?id=5ZNpdmxH2...lt&resnum=9 Link to comment
rogerluli Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 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... Link to comment
rogerluli Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 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... They still go for that much with it laying on the ground? Pre-collapse pricing... Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now