Friday, July 03, 2009

Construction Fail



This is what it looks like when an entire apartment building just lays down on its side!
The building under construction in Shanghai fell over last weekend. Apparently the built a parking garage under half of it, but the other half was just mounded dirt, possibly uncompacted. Several officials at the construction firm have been placed "under appropriate control" by local authorities.

3 comments:

Scott and Malisa Johnson said...

I wonder if the the surrounding buildings are occupied? I'd be hot footing it out of there!

The Mrs/Mom said...

wow I've never seen that, I thought they only collapsed.

JD said...

Other than the whole falling over thing, the building appears to have weathered the fall remarkable well. Especially for what looks like masonry construction.