Chinese Demo Building - Splits in Half, 1/2 Left Leaning on Rubble

[racookpe1978]

See link for video and stills.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...ccidentally-create-leaning-tower-Liuzhou.html

Looks like the right and left halves of the demo'ed building split where they were supposed to.

But the left half fell away from the center (towards the other buildings on the block!) instead of collapsing into a single pile in the center.

The right half - the half was left leaning on rubble - started to collapse inwards correctly, but didn't get the rest of the explosives going off. So it got "braced" against further collapse, and didn't fall "down" far enough to get enough momentum to break itself up by gravity .

 

[dik]

Don't you just love those Chinese explosives... goes with their pipe and drywall...

Dik

 

[JLNJ]

And the poison in the infant formula. Another case of the melamine in the milk powder is in the paper today.

 

[concretemasonry]

The executives from the infant food problem company are now dead (3) or worse, in jail for life.

I bet the building was not built to specifications or portions were built too well. It may mean another executive responsible for the error in construction or demolition could lose his life and the construction engineer (Chinese term) could be in prison for life if a Chinese person was killed.

The city is small (1,500,000 population), but apparently the building occupied valuable land, so it was demolished for new construction. Nice little city.

If the building just fell in the wrong place, they will just haul out the rubble with a some big Cat equipment so the can open the roads for the Mercedes, BMWs and a few Buicks.

It is a different environment that you have to see to understand.

Dick

 

[dhengr]

I said, “I know your famous for your fire works, but despite that, you probably shouldn’t use fire crackers for this kind of demolition work.”

 

[cntw1953]

I think this experiment is rather successful. It domenstrates that a vertical unit can be splited in two to make two horizontal units, though the 2nd unit will need a little longer time to arrive the planned position.

Remember in the article - no body was injured/killed, and the villagers in the photos seem not concerned, even as the leaning one was creeping down.

 

[ishvaaag]

1.5 million little ... only by some standards. Prove to count to 1 million.