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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• cloudpersona@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Actually this one wasn’t a case of bad construction quality, but bad oversight on surrounding projects. They compromised the foundation by digging out a bunch of earth next to it for another project.

  web.archive.org/web/…/content_8394761.htm

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  • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In that case, the building might actually be built to a very high quality? I’ve never seen a building do that. I would think it’d save lives.

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    • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Right? I’m genuinely impressed it stayed in one piece. It looks like most of the windows are still intact too!

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      • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Now for sale: Luxury 1st story apartments

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like those 1960 mercedes that’d survive a car crash, but people were splattered around inside.

      Also, the building looks like plastic, lol.

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  • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The family of the migrant worker who died in the collapse, Xiao Dekun, received 775,000 RMB (approximately $113,000 USD) in compensation.[3]

    13 were tried over the collapse, 8 others including local regulators and subcontractors had their licenses terminated and were fined 500,000 RMB (approximately $68,000). 9 investors were fired from their local government jobs for conflicts of interest.[4] The 2 top shareholders, Que Jingde and Zhang Zhiqin, were sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted on charges of graft, embezzlement of corporate funds, and negligence leading to a serious accident.[5] Zhang was also fined 5 million RMB (approximately 687,000 USD) and Que was fined 2 million RMB (approximately 275,000 USD).

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Collapse_of_Lotus_Riverside_Bl…

    Found a wiki article about it cause I have to turn off my VPN everytime I accesses the wayback machine.

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  • jlow@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nice this (lengthy) article has a handy (if tiny) graphic of what the problems were:

    web.archive.org/web/…/0022190fd2dc0bbe526726.jpg

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  • InGodWeThrust@quokk.au ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the oversight must clearly have been someone holding the blueprints sideways while they were constructing it

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• DeadDigger@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean given that the building still looks fine and did not just smash to rubble boy is that constructed well

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