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Shanghai apartment

http://www.allvoices.com/news/354539...apped-collapse

Quote:

SHANGHAI: A 13-floor apartment building under construction collapsed Saturday morning in Shanghai, killing one worker.

Witnesses said the whole building started to fall down at about 5:30 am on Saturday and a 28-year-old worker surnamed Xiao from Anhui province was buried in the collapse and killed, the Xinhua news agency reported. No other casualties are reported.

A 13-floor apartment building under construction collapses in Minhang district, Shanghai Saturday morning June 27, 2009, killing one worker. [Xinhua]

Zhang Supong, a witness across a river to the collapsed building, said his family and neighbors were shocked when they felt the earth shake in the morning.

"It was just like an earthquake," he told China Daily, adding there was no visual damage in his apartment.

The authorities have ordered suspension of the construction and a thorough investigation of the collapse.

A man, who is in his 30s and declined to be named, told China Daily that he just bought an apartment beside the collapse building and with this accident, he would terminate the contract with the property developers.

The apartment building is at a premium location in Shanghai, about five metro stops from downtown areas, and is sold at a price of 18,000 yuan per sq m.

Local media reported on Friday that some cracks appeared on the anti-flood bank near the collapsed building, but the cause of the cracks was also uncertain.

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damn..the building just toppled over on its side. Luckily the apartment wasn't filled with residents

That's what happens if you don't do research into what ground are you driving those legs into....

Shanghai is a big swamp....pile drivers that work elsewhere are likely to NOT work there at all.

man its like somone just walked over and pushed it over

shit that's like a lego blk that just fell over

makes you wonder if the 2 buildings beside is safe too

Just cheap chinese contractors.

Hope they have insurance...

I wonder if they'll reuse the windows and wood etc. Looked like the building was almost done too :(

This is what happens when you're too cheap.
Everyone cheaps out, no one wins.

looks like GODZILLAAAAA!!! paid them a visit.

it just tipped over a bit, its still good its still good!

"13th floor" wasnt too appropriate , building collapse

wow that looks fucked up, literally just fell over

Leaning tower of piza gone wrong...

So what now? lift the thing back up and just try again? or Restart? lol

they just gonna pull the tower back up and glue it down again :p

It's China...no surprise here...

makes you wonder if its because of china building techniques to western building design...

lol, stand it back up

the apartment looks still in pretty decent shape for falling over. wonder how there gonna fix this. If i was an investor in any of those apartments id be dropping and running far far away from those buildings

just be happy that they didnt decide to build the apartments so close together that it would cause a domino effect =P

damn.. look at those pile drives... they look like they were only 10ft in the ground or somthing..

^ those could be just sewage pipes..lol

Wow... that's amazing for it to just fall over like that... and for the building to look so intact afterwards as well.

Epic engineering fail... and it doesn't pay to go to work early!

Well you can tell the building was engineered correctly the way the building is twisted as it hit the ground.