The fancy Chinese estates and skyscrapers look very nice from a distance but they are falling apart like wet tissue paper.
Worse still are the replica cities of western cities. Those ones are plain dangerous to live in. Mainly due to poor quality materials and zero maintenance. Building a city is one thing, maintaining it is yet another story altogether.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HMcZiWxX7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lAoTBVTTO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCmC9Un8Vy8
Chinese buildings collapsing. It’s as if these buildings are made from soft clay.
Kawaida story in China. Built within a few months, comes down within seconds.
Built in 2018, collapsed in March 2020.
[SIZE=7]Coronavirus: Dozens trapped as China quarantine hotel collapses[/SIZE]
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About 70 people were trapped after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed.
About 47 of the 70 had been pulled from the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel by Sunday, state media says.
Videos posted online show emergency workers combing through the building’s wreckage in the southern province of Fujian.
It is not clear what caused the collapse or if anyone has died.
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Image captionRescue workers in orange overalls clamber over the rubble as they look for survivors
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Image captionThe hotel reportedly had 80 guest rooms
It happened at about 19:30 local time (11:30 GMT).
Chinese state media says the hotel was being used as a quarantine facility monitoring people who had had close contact with coronavirus patients.
The hotel reportedly opened in 2018 and had 80 guest rooms.
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WTF!
Ni kama biscuit.
And I was thinking of contracting them to build a block for me! Gosh!
BTW even in Kenya, wahindis who put up units for sale do a very shoddy job on the structure but do an excellent external finish and fittings…
Back in their home country mambo huwa hivi… on average 7 structures collapsed every day between 2001 and 2015.
That is why I prefer putting up my own units…
In Kenya kuna some qualified architects if you need them. They may be pricey which is why maybe many guys choose shortcuts. And then of course a qualified architect may tell you about regulations that allow you to only put up 3 stories in that particular area but you yourself and your contractor you want 6 stories. And so you build 6 stories.
And then we see you on breaking news a few months later.
The key person is the structural engineer and not the architect…
Ukiwa China ni ukae radar…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_B1PkgA3kA
Just another day in Russia another shithole when it comes to infrastructure.
I have taken note kabisa… that is simply crazy! I do not think these things are reported openly
na vile kileleshwa sikuhizi hao ndokama the main contractors, they’re building apartments all over.
Practice makes perfect.
Wote ni muhimu. You see an architect designs the space. Considers the size of the rooms… how the sunlight will hit the building/rooms… where the toilets should be… how high are the ceilings… how much green space will you have… plus a good architect knows the best materials and how and where to get them.
That is why you find a very good looking apartment in Kenya from the outside but the sitting room is huge and dark or poorly lit even during the daytime and yet the kitchen is very small, or the toilet is right next to the sitting room. The smell blasts you in the face. Or the ceiling is too low and the rooms are stuffy. Or the corridors are too small to even bring up the beds.
Design flaws.
Wa kukufa akufe?:eek:
Of course all the professionals are critical as long as the contractor follows their design and advice. But the critical person who designs the structural components after the architectural plan is the engineer…