Chinese Architectural Engineering
http://www.prlog.org/10273328-nearly-finished-apartment-building-falls-over-in-china.html
http://www.prlog.org/10273328-nearly-finished-apartment-building-falls-over-in-china.html
Chinese Architectural Engineering
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greg75vette
The Traffic Baron
Still looks good to me. Just hoist it back up and use some cinderblocks and old tires to support it. Good as new.
Yellow73SB
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Definitely not the first time it happened
I remember seeing other pics of it happening to other buildings awhile ago :lol:
I remember seeing other pics of it happening to other buildings awhile ago :lol:
big2bird
Charter Member, Founder Bird-Run, Cruise-In Bird-R
No problem, it's China::chinese:
Execute the inspector:suicide:
Execute the contractor:suicide:
Now they know a better use for their lead. Fill the underground columns with lead. That should do the trick.
Execute the inspector:suicide:
Execute the contractor:suicide:
Now they know a better use for their lead. Fill the underground columns with lead. That should do the trick.
redvetracr
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I wonder if they used that toxic drywall they shipped here?
big2bird
Charter Member, Founder Bird-Run, Cruise-In Bird-R
Nope. Export only. They keep the good stuff, and export toxic waste in the form of toys and tools.
I should take a geiger counter with me next trip to harbor Freight.:twitch:
68L71
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My Japanese friend told me stories of several cases in other asian (china, korea, etc) countries where the contractor used garbage as fill in order to use less concrete in footings etc. Then a small earth quake either completely destroys the building or severely damages it.
mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
HUGE problem here in Florida, they 'drain the swamps' to build.....every where in town I see 'drainage ponds'....bullshit, that is the ditch they dug to get the fill sand to make the elevation high enough to build the houses on.....I suppose they find the deepest parts of the swamps for those spots, and then make them deeper....
NOW in this process, over the last few years I have personally witnessed two houses of 'GRAND PROPORTIONS'....like 4000'+ size, as in entrance patios the size of my two car garage, as in vaulted ceilings 2.5 stories high....as in complicated roof lines, and grandiose JUNK....
why?? the land was full of rotting swamp material...old alligators, snakes, tree trunks, palm trees, segos palms, and plowed over for building a grand slab, I saw one of them houses, guest house on inground poolside, main house, and garage with the ENTIRE SLAB about 6" below the general lay of the totally flat lot/surrounding land.....there was a 2' wide slope to the house walls, all around the joint....and a typical ~2' roof sofitt overhang.....
the slab had more cracks than Jack Benny....
then there is that house with the grand arky tech design above....that joint has walls pulling apart inside, so bad that on the corners there was over 2" of space where the corner post pulled away from the sheetrock and I could look at it and see where that whole house was coming DOWN.....
the slap was coming apart faster than they could shore it up again....house was only 2 years old but out of builder's ONE year warranty......so the guys who bought it....outta luck....
all attempts to save it only made it worse....
so it's NOT just China with shitty construction practices....
I maybe not much on Rocket Science....but I did take RS 101, bought a house some 30 years old, build on a hill with decent drainage, uncracked slab, and masonry walls with windows/doors that actually worked/functioned like it was built right....or at least someone TRIED....
I"m tell you what, the CRAP I have run into in the remodeling/repair/maintenance trade is just ASS Tounding........
and that don't include one up in Maryland...another time....
:twitch:
ush:
big2bird
Charter Member, Founder Bird-Run, Cruise-In Bird-R
In the 40's and 50's around here, it was considered okay to tear out the orange trees, bury them, and build on top. I've seen a few buildings sink after 40 years of rotting away.
You could NEVER get away with that here now.
As for Florida, well, it's a swamp.:goodnight:
You could NEVER get away with that here now.
As for Florida, well, it's a swamp.:goodnight:
mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
:flash: AND lightening capital of the nation, I may add.....
and...I CLIMBED Mt. DORA too.....
elevation 30'.....the locals laugh their asses off over that one, part of the town addy gig.....they have a very huge flea market as their main claim to fame, at that flea market you can find ANYTHING......
seriously....
:beer::bonkers::rofl:
