Actually this one wasn’t a case of bad construction quality, but bad oversight on surrounding projects. They compromised the foundation by digging out a bunch of earth next to it for another project.
The family of the migrant worker who died in the collapse, Xiao Dekun, received 775,000 RMB (approximately $113,000 USD) in compensation.[3]
13 were tried over the collapse, 8 others including local regulators and subcontractors had their licenses terminated and were fined 500,000 RMB (approximately $68,000). 9 investors were fired from their local government jobs for conflicts of interest.[4] The 2 top shareholders, Que Jingde and Zhang Zhiqin, were sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted on charges of graft, embezzlement of corporate funds, and negligence leading to a serious accident.[5] Zhang was also fined 5 million RMB (approximately 687,000 USD) and Que was fined 2 million RMB (approximately 275,000 USD).
I’m guessing that because the ground beside it wasn’t retained properly, it may have slowly leaned (like the famous pizza joint) and instead of stopping it, the just allowed it to continue to a relatively gentle fall.
Actually this one wasn’t a case of bad construction quality, but bad oversight on surrounding projects. They compromised the foundation by digging out a bunch of earth next to it for another project.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090711123638/https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-07/08/content_8394761.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Lotus_Riverside_Block_7
Found a wiki article about it cause I have to turn off my VPN everytime I accesses the wayback machine.
Nice this (lengthy) article has a handy (if tiny) graphic of what the problems were:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140303111153im_/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20090708/0022190fd2dc0bbe526726.jpg
In that case, the building might actually be built to a very high quality? I’ve never seen a building do that. I would think it’d save lives.
Like those 1960 mercedes that’d survive a car crash, but people were splattered around inside.
Also, the building looks like plastic, lol.
Right? I’m genuinely impressed it stayed in one piece. It looks like most of the windows are still intact too!
I’m guessing that because the ground beside it wasn’t retained properly, it may have slowly leaned (like the famous pizza joint) and instead of stopping it, the just allowed it to continue to a relatively gentle fall.
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I think the oversight must clearly have been someone holding the blueprints sideways while they were constructing it