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I would rather live in a cheaply made wooden house than a cheaply made concrete one. The simple common way to build a wooden house is massively redundant. Con
by jhallenworld 5y ago
I would rather live in a cheaply made wooden house than a cheaply made concrete one. The simple common way to build a wooden house is massively redundant. Concrete houses use post and slab, even in poor countries. So in Nairobi, they were having six building collapses per month.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2016/0430/Why-are-buildings-in-Kenya-collapsing https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2016/0430/Why-ar...
- codefined 5y agoYour source seems to contradict 'six buliding collapses per month': "A six-story building collapsed Friday night in Nairobi, killing at least a dozen people. Several buildings in Kenya have collapsed in the past year. Why?"
- jhallenworld 5y agoMy source for the 6/month figure is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPYJ4l-lBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPYJ4l-lBI Only the big ones end up in the media.. But you are right it seems like an overestimate. I found this showing 17 buildings collapsed in eight years, citing a CMU study: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2016/05/02/kenya-s-long-history-housing-disasters https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2016/05/02/kenya-s-l...