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. — wired.com
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sea sand? As in, saltwater-y?!?!
Oh my goodness, I just read the article, and YES, SALTWATER-Y. What the heck?! How greedy do you have to be to pull something that EGREGIOUSLY incorrect??! How do you just NOT CARE that you are creating a supremely dangerous, unsafe condition that may result in thousands of deaths in the not-so-far future?!!
Also, the construction firms involved had their licenses pulled for only six months.
That is absolutely mind-numbing. And to think of how much construction Chinese firms are now handling, all over the world........
Made in China
This is gonna be an awesome demolition project.
what do you expect from the country that brought you rat fried rice.
joking joking hahaha.
roking roking! rah ha ha!
ching chong chang!
ba lomp bom bomp!
I'd much prefer crushed rat bones to sea sand as aggregate in ferro concrete.
This really doesn't surprise me, although using sea sand really is a bit much even by my NY/NJ shady concrete standards.
Lets not forget, being blinded by all the shiny architecture in China, this is the country of cheap fakes, and will always be.
Do you suppose there's any rebar in there?
these are just the buildings they inspected and caught... can you imagine how many was built using salty sand? xD
I though China had even stricter regulations than the U.S. for major projects...
There's an article from a few years back about HdM's experience with the bird's nest - basically if you pay off the right people the building officials will look the other way. Doesn't matter if you have strict regulations if your government is corrupt.
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