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WOW! I just looked this up using Tin.eye and the imgur link to locate this fiasco and how it happened. This event happened in 2009 in Shanghai, China. The loca

WOW! I just looked this up using Tin.eye and the imgur link to locate this fiasco and how it happened. This event happened in 2009 in Shanghai, China. The location was Block-7 at Lotus Riverside in the Minhang District. The building did not fall due an earthquake but rather due to very poor foundation planning. The coup de grace or death blow came when an underground parking garage was being dug below the building. (Why did not not dig out the garage first?) One worker was killed and no residents had moved in yet. (They want their money back) Building a sky scrapper in just a few weeks or even months seems pretty rushed and quite ill advised. Each floor would have to be inspected and certified as safe and I don't believe that could be done in under a year. Here is a page on what went wrong: http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2010/02/its-no-fun-it-fell-right-over.html http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2010/02/its-n...

vidarh 11y ago
> Each floor would have to be inspected and certified as safe and I don't believe that could be done in under a year. "Nobody" spends that long on modern highrises - the processes are generally well understood and most of the structures are "cookie cutter" designs with solid margins. The ones going up in London now typically takes 1-3 days per floor for the structure.
- SCAQTony 11y ago
  If it takes 1-3 days per floor (let's presume this building was built in London and it only took one day per floor) would it not take 57-days then? or do they wait till the building is built and do it all at once? In Los Angeles you build a floor, it has to be inspected one floor at a time. Then again, London does not have earthquakes but both Shanghai and California do.