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Airfoilsguy (Founding Member) 01 Jul 09, 03:08Post
What do you think the people in the other buildings are thinking?

http://www.archdaily.com/27245/building ... -shanghai/

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halls120 (Plank Owner) 01 Jul 09, 03:20Post
Airfoilsguy wrote:What do you think the people in the other buildings are thinking?


How F'ing fast can I get the hell out?
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Cadet57 01 Jul 09, 03:22Post
Airfoilsguy wrote:What do you think the people in the other buildings are thinking?



Honey, have you seen the cat? Honey?
Lucas (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 01 Jul 09, 03:34Post
You could still live in it, just with very tall walls.
captoveur 01 Jul 09, 03:50Post
And some engineers career just ended.
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JetsGo (Founding Member) 01 Jul 09, 04:07Post
Honey? When did Ted get here?
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JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 01 Jul 09, 09:57Post
The 13-story building is part of the Lotus Riverside complex in suburban Shanghai.


Told you thirteeen was unlucky.
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Zak (netAirspace FAA) 01 Jul 09, 10:22Post
captoveur wrote:And some engineers career just ended.

Not necessarily. In China, this may very well be regarded as 'meeting the standard quality requirements'...
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miamiair (netAirspace FAA) 01 Jul 09, 10:23Post
Government Motors got into the Contracting/Construction business?
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Zak (netAirspace FAA) 01 Jul 09, 10:33Post
miamiair wrote:Government Motors got into the Contracting/Construction business?

No. If they did, the house would not only have toppled, but also fallen into pieces... {mischief}
Ideology: The mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither beliefs nor mistaken.
miamiair (netAirspace FAA) 01 Jul 09, 10:36Post
Zak wrote:
miamiair wrote:Government Motors got into the Contracting/Construction business?

No. If they did, the house would not only have toppled, but also fallen into pieces... {mischief}


How did I miss that? {sorry}
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ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 01 Jul 09, 10:52Post
Bet the ones in the next building are glad of the space in between... would have been an interesting domino effect.
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Queso (netAirspace ATC Tower Chief & Founding Member) 01 Jul 09, 12:12Post
Here's some info just in case the guys that designed the building are reading this thread....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(engineering)

A foundation (also called a groundsill) is a structure that transfers loads to the earth. Foundations are generally broken into two categories: shallow foundations and deep foundations.

Shallow foundation is, usually, embedded a meter or so into soil. One common type is the spread footing which consists of strips or pads of concrete (or other materials) which extend below the frost line and transfer the weight from walls and columns to the soil or bedrock. Another common type is the slab-on-grade foundation where the weight of the building is transferred to the soil through a concrete slab placed at the surface.

Deep foundation is used to transfer a load from a structure through an upper weak layer of soil to a stronger deeper layer of soil. There are different types of deep foundations including helical piles, impact driven piles, drilled shafts, caissons, piers, and earth stabilized columns. The naming conventions for different types of foundations vary between different engineers. Historically, piles were wood, later steel, reinforced concrete, and pre-tensioned concrete.


Foundations are designed to have an adequate load capacity with limited settlement by a geotechnical engineer, and the foundation itself is designed structurally by a structural engineer.

The primary design concerns are settlement and bearing capacity. When considering settlement, total settlement and differential settlement is normally considered. Differential settlement is when one part of a foundation settles more than another part. This can cause problems to the structure the foundation is supporting. It is necessary that a foundation is not loaded beyond its bearing capacity or the foundation will "fail".

Other design considerations include scour and frost heave. Scour is when flowing water removes supporting soil from around a foundation (like a pier supporting a bridge over a river). Frost heave occurs when water in the ground freezes to form ice lenses.

Changes in soil moisture can cause expansive clay to swell and shrink. This swelling can vary across the footing due to seasonal changes or the effects of vegetation removing moisture. The variation in swell can cause the soil to distort, cracking the structure over it. This is a particular problem for house footings in semi-arid climates such as South Australia, Southwestern US, Turkey, Israel, Iran and South Africa where wet winters are followed by hot dry summers. Raft slabs with inherent stiffness have been developed in Australia with capabilities to resist this movement.

When structures are built in areas of permafrost, special consideration must be given to the thermal effect the structure will have on the permafrost. Generally, the structure is designed in a way that tries to prevent the permafrost from melting.
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