[BearCave]

Apartment building collapse in Shanghai
Sunday, June 28, 2009 8:57 AEST

Workers survey the damage after a 13-storey apartment building toppled, burying one worker in Shanghai June 27, 2009.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2009/06/28/2610526.htm

 

[Anberlin]

I saw this in the international skybar - I lol'd

 

[Fyver]

Isn't 70% of Shanghai on the verge of colapse....

Are those piles hollow?

 

[uewepuep]

I saw something similar in Delhi last year. An intact 4story building just lying on its side...

 

[Wezza]

That's just bizarre how the whole building is still virtually intact.

 

[nOchAos]

Do you think they will just winch it all back up again doesnt even look like it sustained a broken window lol

 

[Svartmetall]

That's just bizarre how the whole building is still virtually intact.

I think you'll find that the buildings have to be relatively sturdy due to typhoons and earthquake risk. How this happened is beyond me though.

 

[Alphaville]

Buildings went down in a similar way in 1999 when western Turkey was hit by a
7.6 magnitude earthquake (which left some 17,000 dead).

 

[BrizzyChris]

WTF!

The piling contractor will be in a world of shit - but not as much as the head contractors.

 

[Saltwater_Sydney]

I'll bet the values of those other apartment buildings left standing have gone through the roof since this happened!

 

[Scion]

It was due to the construction of an underground carpark that caused the nearby riverbank to collapse ---> the soil loosens ---> the apartment tipped over

 

[Fyver]

Here I thought it was a coincedence the distance between the buildings just happened to be just a little more than their heights..

 

[Joseph D]

It was due to the construction of an underground carpark that caused the nearby riverbank to collapse ---> the soil loosens ---> the apartment tipped over

Had the piles been deep enough, that wouldn't have happened.

WTF!

The piling contractor will be in a world of shit - but not as much as the head contractors.

Nah, the head contractor will shift the blame to the piling contractor. Might be more of a design issue though.