12-story building in China -- OOPS!

Interesting all that "left over" rebar just lying there:

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I got bigger turds than those pilings.

"The Journey is the reward"

That could have been stockpiled for the underground garage that they were preparing to build. Probably it wouldn=92t have mattered, but I'm not sure why they use "hollow pilings.=94 I can=92t imagine that the concrete saved would amount to much money. Maybe Henry Petroski (failure analysis engineer/author) will include a discussion of this incident in a new book. It=92s a good sign that China seems to be more open to embarrassing news, but they=92re still very far from being an open society. Probably someone will be jailed or shot.

Yes, but do they have structural rigidity?

Yes, but do they have structural rigidity?

Probably as much as those pilings, looking at some of them.

At least no one was living in it yet (at least one _hopes_ there was no one living in it yet).

Anyone want an apartment? It's only seven feet wide, but it's twenty feet high!

You should see a doctor about that, a change in diet may be indicated...

H.

This is about a year old. Look at all the window treatments and blinds already installed - I think they evacuated in time, but it was occupied.

Those footings would have been inadequate even without the hole on one side. spoils on the other, and a lot of rain to soften everything up. IMHO a good strong earthquake would have taken it down.

Betcha they called in an army of manual laborers and salvaged out all the unbroken windows, then the contents, then took it apart brick by brick, saved all the rebar and crunched the concrete bits into fresh aggregate...

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