Comments on: Construction, Chinese Style

By: SouSou

SouSou — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:45:08 +0000

-edit- wrong article

By: SouSou

SouSou — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:33:53 +0000

lol India a superpower? Look up "Naxalites". And then do a google image search for "Naxalite Map". A substantial chunk of India is barely under state control.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:30:15 +0000

extreme engineering, discovery channel. china style

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:06:09 +0000

While the article is old, some comments are new, so i think a better explanation is in order. I think the explanation of the following article is the best among the internet http://simonteefb.blogspot.com/2009/08/shanghai-building-collapse.html

Basically, on one side of the building they dug 15 feet to build an underground garage, while on the other they piled the dug material. The soil creeped from the heavy side to the dug side. Piles are not meant to work that way, though a pile containment wall on the dug side would have prevented this. The piles failed by shearing and the building tilted toward the dug side

It IS impressive that it did not disintegrate upon falling though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:09:07 +0000

they probably didn't construct the building straight enough with piling not reaching the hard bedrocks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:58:05 +0000

Reading through the comments, i can tell someone here is hiding that he is chinese.. yes indeed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:54:43 +0000

The Communists will probably find a way to blame this on foreigners.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:04:28 +0000

okay seriously how the fuck did they manage that?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:11:09 +0000

What about bashing the westerns?
Or are we not allowed to do that?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:22:03 +0000

HOTELS WAS A KICKASS GAME!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:07:45 +0000

They need to have a talk about rebar. I know... it is expensive to add metal to concrete.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:55:09 +0000

chinese = profit + fucked up safety standards

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:28:55 +0000

Why allways in this blog almost time show the worst part of China?? All this only happen in China?? Sure?? Japan didn't have some bad things too??? or the people who manage this blog only know to show how many they hate China?? Only becouse have one new in one zone of China didn't means that this is chinese style and aaaaall chinese do the same... please!! I guess japan have his bad news too.. and not only japan... all the countries in the world! But stop to only show the worst face of China!! Im living in China for looong time and i never seen anything about this and all the news you explain here about chinise news... China is so big... and if happen something in one town or some village not means that all the chinese people do the same!! my god...
PD: Sorry if my english is not perfect

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:29:24 +0000

made in china has a new meaning lol

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:29:18 +0000

So what, they used plastic bottles for steel supports now?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:22:35 +0000

It always fascinates me how it's the China and not say India that will be world's next superpower.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:01:52 +0000

Prison?

It's China, dude.

Guys responsible will be billed for bullet and shot.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:22:42 +0000

Dude, it's a news website, it's supposed to inform. So what if people exterior to your country are not affected by or can't do anything about its problems? Should we just stop reading or commenting about them? Should we pretend these "great demonstrations of modern architecture" are fine because they happened somewhere away from here? Look, if something happened (and a lot of shit does happen)in my country I have a right to criticize it. If something shitty happens in yours... well, you probably get what I'm trying to say.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:44:51 +0000

that is a piece of very hard work to build a building skipping the foundation for the sake of speed and cheapness

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:26:23 +0000

Now I'm wondering who actually built the tower of Piza

By: Falk5T

Falk5T — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:20:40 +0000

Quote Anonon: "Yup, Up from the foundation it seems like they did a good job. At least on the outside anyways."

Yeah thats the only part the engineers couldn't take pictures of.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:43:09 +0000

There goes my apartment....

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:47:21 +0000

It's funny because he made himself look like a moron. ^_^

Unless he's talking about the 15lb Thomson, AKA the Tommygun, in which case it's Classic.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:04:11 +0000

Looking at the diagram and the pictures they did not drive support pilings to the bed rock nor did they use enough re-bar in them.

All if these are going have to be knocked down and rebuilt properly if at all.

A river bank is a very poor location for a high rise building.

If they insist on developing that location low-rise buildings such as condos might be the only option.
There's a reason why only certain parts of NYC have tall buildings it's called geology.