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4 weeks ago
02 July 2009
Building Laying Down
You've probably seen this already, but it is so fascinating to me, I just had to comment. Somehow a building was built in China with poor foundations on quicksand like soil, and tipped over like a domino while still under construction. The layers of safety, permits, engineering reports, insurance requirements and special required inspections guarantee that nothing this flimsy could ever be built in this country:
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What's facinating is the building actually held together as it fell over! How would you like to be living in a building built by the same builder?
That's absolutely incredible.
Makes you wonder about the other two buildings in the same complex there.
It reminds me of a book from my childhood, "Sideways Stories from Wayside School." Of course, in that story they took a long single-story building and accidentally built it on its end... this would be just the opposite.
Thank goodness these weren't closer together, since it could have really been a domino effect.
^ I was thinking the same thing.
Thanks for sharing...this is the first that I have seen this.
Ok, so the geotech engineer is in deep #@%^. But the whoever designed the above ground portion is about to be in serious demand.
How does that thing not crush itself?
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