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They don't really count as failures, but this photo gallery is pretty interesting http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/high-aspirations
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Dec 17, 2015 15:12
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blowfish posted:having stayed in a Chinese village being constructed I can confirm this is 100% true, and also emphasise the lovely tools and building materials used by Chinese construction contractors. Measuring things is done with a water level, a piece of string, and moderately bad eye sight and bricks are so lovely they'll crumble to dust if dropped and so cheap they come in a dump truck, get dropped off, and only the top half of the pile that didn't get crushed to dust gets used for building. In addition, terribly unsafe railings made from aluminum tubing that will bend and snap if you lean against it. Chinese building standards are questionable as gently caress There was some Chinese aluminium/aluminum cladding that was imported into Australia that turned out to be highly flammable leading to this:  And when people conducted testing on it, welp quote:Cheaply imported aluminium cladding from Melbourne’s fire-damaged Lacrosse tower was so flammable CSIRO scientists had to abandon combustibility tests after only 93 seconds to avoid damaging their equipment. It turns out this particular kind of cladding has been imported into a bunch of Western countries due to how cheap it is and it's racked up quite a death toll. quote:An MFB incident report into the November Lacrosse fire also reveals there have been seven high-rise apartment fires around the world directly attributed to the unsafe cladding with plastic cores, with more than seven deaths. Four high-rise towers in Dubai including The Torch — all with aluminium cladding with the plastic core — have suffered extensive damage from fires spreading up the facade of the buildings. Anyway, it turns out the plastic core is what makes it highly flammable quote:The Alucobest cladding used at Lacrosse and widely used across Australia’s booming apartment building sector contains a polyethylene, or plastic, core and does not meet Australian building code or fire safety standards. lol
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Jan 10, 2016 01:25
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construction effort mostly goes into McMansions that won't survive the next hurricane instead of stone buildings that will last 200 years (or until the next earthquake in which case lol stone)