13-storey building in Shanghai tips over

[BeBMan]

BEIJING: Chinese state media say a 13-storey apartment building under construction in Shanghai has toppled over almost intact, killing one

Footage on state broadcaster CCTV showed the whole building lying on its side.

The official Xinhua News Agency said that a 28-year-old worker, surnamed Xiao, had gone into the building to get his tools and tried to jump out of the window when the building fell. He was from Anhui province in eastern China.

The accident early on Saturday morning occurred in the “Lotus Riverside'' residential community in Minxing district.

The cause of the incident is being investigated, Xinhua said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/13-storey-Shanghai-building-tips-over/articleshow/4710187.cms

[Eli]

I didn't know buildings can do that.

[Tattila the Hun]

That's what happens, when you contract a firm, who makes mostly dominoes.

[Docfeelgood]

made in china

[Straybow]

Short pilings in soft soil? Big mistake.

[notyoueither]

Look at how well built that is, I mean aside from the foundation.

[Winston]

It must have been all the bicycles they had parked up against it.

[Dr Strangelove]

I wonder which side of the building the worker jumped out of? The side in the direction of the fall or the other side?

[SlowwHand]

I wonder what the people in the other buildings are thinking. No, I pretty much can guess.

[Dr Strangelove]

The complex doesn't look finished yet. My guess is that some one's out of a big chunk of change, as the entire complex will have to be torn down.

The building doesn't appear to have a basement, nor is there a concrete slab foundation. It appears to have been sitting on a bunch of 8 to 10 foot long wooden pylons.

[Thoth]

More qwality Chinese engineering.

[DanS]

Quite lucky that more didn't die.

Amazing that the construction firm built that with an expectation that the building would stand. The head of the firm should be charged with murder.

[KrazyHorse]

The building doesn't appear to have a basement, nor is there a concrete slab foundation. It appears to have been sitting on a bunch of 8 to 10 foot long wooden pylons.

I think they're reinforced concrete. But they don't look long enough for what appears to be loose soil. If the thing was sitting on rock I'd guess that it would have been okay.

[KrazyHorse]

[KrazyHorse]

Looks like only some of them pulled out. The others snapped off, which says to me that in addition to being too short the pilings weren't big enough/there weren't enough of them