China Goes Full Keynesian-tard: Demolishes Never-Used Just-Built Skyscraper
"Growth" meet "mal-investment boom-bust" In a perfect example of the smoke-and-mirror-ness of China's credit-fueled expansion, a 27-storey high-rise building which was completed on November 15th 2015 was just demolished, "having been left unused for too long."
As China People's Daily reports,
Directional blasting demolition of a high-rise building was completed successfully at 7 a.m. on November 15, 2015 in Xi'an, in northwestern China's Shaanxi province.
The building was 118 meters high (27 floors) with a total construction area of over 37000 square meters.
Having been left unused for too long, the building could not be brought back into use so local government decided to demolish it.
It is reported to be the highest building that has ever been demolished in China.
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The silver-lining - now workers can clean up the mess, dig a bigger hole... and fill that in - all in the name of Keynesian "growth."
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Shrivel ready jobs ...
2 months is too long? ... Boy, talk about a real quicky...
I can remember a public housing tower built in Indianapolis in the 1970's. It was left unheated after construction and the water pipes all froze. When it got warmer the whole place flooded. After some debate they decided to destroy it. No one was ever housed in it for even a day.
At one time this story had a point but I've forgotten what it was. Something to do with windows....
Kinda like Progressive stewardship of race relations in 'Mercia.
Were well built and improved over generations only to be torn asunder in 7 years.
All you have to do is thermite the top floors and the rest pancakes!
No scooby, all you have to do is dump a few hundred gallons of jet fuel and burn some office furniture and paper and the beams will all melt at the same speed and fall straight down. Its physics! Just like Popular Mechanics taught us...and the 9/11 commission report. All those official sources never lie and always have our best interest in mind.
Klugman Lah! Lah! Lah!
You don't have to melt all the beams at the same time.
Wait guys...
When was this building completed?
Unless I'm missing something, the story from the Chinese site says it was demolished on November 15th...
However, I don't see anything about when the construction was completed...
Maybe it was an older building...
...but again, maybe I'm missing something.
You don't have to melt all the beams at the same time. With the weight of so many floors above, damage or softening to beams on one side that leaves the overhead weight unsupported can cause a little sag And that sag will start to torque the beams elsewhere. Once that torque gets to a certain point structural failure occurs and the rest of the beams quickly snap. At the snapping point the corner or side sag hasn't moved the upper floors but a few feet off center. Hence it falls pretty much straight down.
I wonder if anyone ever tried to analyze video looking for evidence of corner or side sag prior to the pancake-ing. You might be able to compensate for sway from wind and see evidence of a few feet of off center shift.
A pyroclastic cloud! Now, where have I seen that before....?
Just trace lines from lower floors through the torn gap to the upper floors. Any change in the line up over time would be pretty convincing.
Yeah. I think David Chandler did something like that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpAp8eCEqNA
That video mostly not on WTC and focused just on acceleration after drop started. More interested in data points looking for signs of sag or torque in the minutes leading up to the start of the fall of either or both WTC.
The PROC probably finds it cheaper over the long to knock down a number of buildings vs having a very high vacancy rate which would drive rents down and perhaps leave the entire office building market under water. I get they made some real 'smart' loans to the developers of those buildings.
LOL!!! That's freaking hilarious! Please, keep it coming!
the problem with your engineering is the core support structure of the twin towers were meant to support the cantelevered floors extending from the core. in other words the base structure was strong enough to support the entire building. the tenth floor core was built to support the entire building minus the bottom ten floors and so on all the way up the center of the building. under the .gov conspiracy theory the core of the towers should have remained virtually intact as the weight of the building fell away from it. as the building fell the core would have needed to support less and less weight.
instead the core fell away from the base of the core structure. that could never have happened in ny physical world. yet it did. go figure.
Two comments:
1. It's a good thing there aren't any homeless people in China who could've used some shelter...
2. This is how humans use our precious Mother Earth's resources.
WE DESERVE TO GO EXTINCT FOR DUMB SHIT LIKE THIS.
Yeah. Sure. Right.
At freefall speed all the way down, with pools of melted steel pouring out and burning for weeks.
That kinda stuff happens in the absence of thermite explosives in like uh NEVER. Well, OK. It happens when Marvin Bush guards your building.
And building 7 collapsed at freefall speed out of sympathy. The BBC preannounced it fell 20 min early because they're really smart British guys with deluxe accents.
BuddyEffed, I have an engineering degree, passed PE exam early and easily, plus more than 25 years experience. Your nonsense is entirely ignorant! ! Explosives were used for both Twin Towers, and building 7.
For fun burn a half gallon of diesel on the biggest piece of structural steel you can find and tell everyone when you can change its shape. Then try it with cement lined steel ;-)
How long did it take the burning Dubai skyscraper to collapse?
Weren't the steel beams and columns holding all of the ones above them up for decades?
Decades of very static loads and very small torques only due to swaying in wind. Straight up and down loading with no practical sideways forces.
You miss nothing, R.B. The *demolition* was completed on Novemeber 15th, not the building. If it was "unused for too long", it was probably filled with mold, uninhabitable, and had to come down.
Nothing in the story stated how old the building actually was.
Tylers misread this one, and the headline is misleading. I thought the building had just been completed 55 days ago too, reading the headline.
Well Adolph, you didn't need to use the Jet fuel because after all, no jet hit bldg 7 so no fuel was used to make that building fall at free fall speed from office fires.
Looks like no one told BuddyEfed. He is still feverishly believing the official 911 story at all costs. So much so he had to create an account here to inform me about how steel beams really melt.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.560.3179&rep=re...
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF STRUCTURAL STEEL AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES AND AFTER COOLING DOWN
https://www.google.com/search?q=steel+strength+vs+temperature&client=saf...
Buddy, go sell crazy somewhere else. 9-11 was an inside job through and through.
They wouldn't do THAAAT!!??? Are you a true believer in American Exceptionalism?
Wanna mind bender, Buddy? Take a quick peek at Apollo 11 and tell me some patriotic shit about that paper mache thingy flying 50 years ago to the moon & back through the Van Allen radiation.
Buddy, you're a shill or a mark.
Yes, steel beams are completely vulnerable to fire. Passports however.....
FFS.
Steel starts going through phase changes starting around 700°C. i.e. it can go from a hard steel to a soft one. This is exactly the same process as losing the temper on a blade or axe head by trying to sharpen it on a grinder.
Jet fuel burns at around 1000°C. If you have a look at any steel / iron carbide phase diagrams you'll see there are a load of phase changes which will happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel
You don't need the steel to melt to cause a failure. Just to bend.
Google Operation Northwoods. Read it, and tell me tgats not what happened on 9/11
Thanks. The American people should dig up Lyman Lemnitzer and his wife from Arlington and shit on them.
Don't they have empty cities which have been there for years? Let's demolish those too yeah!
I imagine the quality of its construction was top notch.
coming soon to a gulag near you
Make them an appointment to see this Russian doctor……
http://beforeitsnews.com/healthcare/2016/01/crazy-russian-doctor-kills-p...
fuck off, stupid spammer
no one cares about your crap site
They could have saved money and just started fires on 2 floors and wait
Bastiat, Chinese style.
I call the top. If THAT is not indicative of the top, I don't know what is.
Krugman would bring out the hand lotion and paper towel for this.
Pull it!
No, what really happened was a plane crashed nearby.
Have they blamed the Saudi's then invaded Iraq yet?
Larry Silverstein owned that one TOO??
Thank you! I had a heartfelt chuckle!
Some "Dancing Israelis" recorded this event .
Break those windows!!!
Hazlitt !
Well timed Kessel!
dupe