that sounds cool… is it this? if not what is the name of the show?
I have no idea the name of the show. I shortly glanced at that video and that’s not it.
It had a reality TV feel to it, not a scrubbed documentary.
It’s all concrete…easy to make up a 12" distance in half a mile right?
i did design work on a few projects over there…not big towers but lots of low rise residential…the stories and pictures we’d see from the construction sites were crazy. I expect most of the stuff will end up getting torn down and redeveloped in 10-15 years…lots of slap dash stuff…the architect or engineer would ask to have something redone then a guy in a headscarf would stop by and say it’s fine it needs to get finished a month or whatever earlier than planned.
Whatever happened with that one in China that was to be a kilometer tall and be finished in 90 days?
It I remember correctly the error made it so that the windows wouldn’t fit properly on that floor.
I wish I could find this video…
It doesn’t stop me from wanting to go up the tower some day :tup:
WHAAA?
Fireworks mishap?
This is like the 3rd fire this year that has just ripped through multiple floors of a skyscraper. Are their building codes different than ours? Holy hell.
this will be a very interesting story to follow…
i have already seen the tin foil hat guys on FB stating that the building has failed to fall at free-fall speed with reference to 9/11… in less than 45 minutes since the story broke.
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i would bet the codes are very different and with varying degrees of compliance to them…
Single apartment fire that ripped through multiple floors as well.
At least they still blew off the fireworks
I completely forgot about any other buildings but the twin towers.
Makes no sense to me
A lot of the stuff- at least that I ever did design work on over there- was essentially built to the model codes in use here in the US.
the problem is that there are a bunch of exterior cladding systems that contain a lot of plastics in one form or another. A small fire starts on the inside of the building, escapes through a window and gets inside the cladding system and just burns right up the wall.
There was a fire on the outside of a Vegas casino a few years ago where the same thing happened. In that case the cladding system was a stucco coated foam insulation board. In this case it is probably some kind for aluminum composite panel system.
Over the past several years there has been a lot of discussion about proper detailing of window openings and cladding systems to be sure there is continuous protection from fire escaping a window and taking off on the outside of the building.
all of that said I believe most of this fire took place on the exterior with little damage to the interior structure of the building. Of course, all the tin foil hat crowd won’t bother to acknowledge that unfortunate fact.