Sometime last week an apartment complex situated in Guangdong (China) was successfully demolished by explosives. It is currently the tallest building demolished in this way in Asia. The task to destabilise the main support columns alone cost 55,000 RMB and the whole process was estimated to have cost around 3 million RMB. The apartment complex [...]

A six level car park in Atlanta collapsed earlier today with at least 35 cars trapped on Level 4. Not quite as serious as the apartment that fallen over in Shanghai but nonetheless it is pretty serious!

Source: chinanews.com.cn
　

Late last week a thirteen floor apartment building toppled over in Shanghai. Surprisingly only one person was killed in the incident because the apartment was still in construction. It is widely speculated that the foundation of the complex was not lawfully constructed, reduced materials may have been used to save some construction cost. Others speculated [...]