Building Collapse....

Posted by jeff_wisnia on November 6, 2009, 3:02 pm

A more complete set of photos of this June's Shanghai building collapse
and diagrams explaining what happened and why.

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/bldg_fall/

Jeff
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Posted by RicodJour on November 6, 2009, 4:22 pm

> A more complete set of photos of this June's Shanghai building collapse
> and diagrams explaining what happened and why.
> http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/bldg_fall/

Man, those Chinese are something! I've heard of tilt-up construction,
but never tilting up the entire building after it's been completed!
What will they think of next...

R

Posted by EXT on November 6, 2009, 5:19 pm

> A more complete set of photos of this June's Shanghai building
> collapse and diagrams explaining what happened and why.
> http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/bldg_fall/
> Jeff

Those pilings look awfully flimsy, no wonder they snapped off, there was
hardly any re-rods and they were just hollow tubes, not much more than a
concrete drain pipe.

Posted by Red Green on November 8, 2009, 10:28 pm

$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.octanews.com:

>> A more complete set of photos of this June's Shanghai building
>> collapse and diagrams explaining what happened and why.
>> http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/bldg_fall/
>> Jeff

>
> Those pilings look awfully flimsy, no wonder they snapped off, there was
> hardly any re-rods and they were just hollow tubes, not much more than a
> concrete drain pipe.
>

Think it has Chinese Drywall?

Posted by Jon Danniken on November 6, 2009, 6:36 pm

jeff_wisnia wrote:

> A more complete set of photos of this June's Shanghai building
> collapse and diagrams explaining what happened and why.
> http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/bldg_fall/

Holy mackerel, I don't feel so bad about my shoddy workmanship now!

Jon

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