Archinect - News2024-05-04T12:19:36-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/69840388/poor-quality-chinese-concrete-could-lead-to-skyscraper-collapses
Poor-Quality Chinese Concrete Could Lead to Skyscraper Collapses Archinect2013-03-21T18:53:00-04:00>2024-01-23T19:16:08-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1q/1q92vl636f6nju74.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The Ping’an Finance Center is planned to top out at 660m, making it not only China’s tallest building but the second-tallest building in the world after the Burj Dubai. 80m has been built so far, but construction has been halted in the wake of the revelation from Shenzhen’s Housing and Construction Bureau that substandard sea sand concrete had been used in its construction.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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