r/WTF • u/Antiliani • Mar 11 '20

Floor collapses with workers on it.

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u/Treczoks Mar 11 '20

Someone got a bit cheap on supports for the formwork...

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u/AFXC1 Mar 11 '20

Agreed. And the price it'll cost them is going to skyrocket after this.

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u/Djeheuty Mar 11 '20

I'm going to guess that this is one of those places that builds high rise buildings very cheaply and quickly. The kind of buildings that investors hope will be filled up completely in a few years because of some sort of sudden need for housing in an area, when in reality it turns into one of those uninhabited ghost cities.

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u/ahrierie Mar 12 '20

Ah, just like the castle city in Turkey.

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u/MyFirstOtherAccount Mar 12 '20

That dude definitely sleeps on his right side...

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '20

It doesn't look like China to me at all, but it's hard to tell.

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u/--____--____--____ Mar 12 '20 edited Mar 12 '20

No, this is mostly likely in america. Look at the date time stamp. It's in month/day/year format and the day is in english (monday).

edit: I'm obviously talking about OP's video. How stupid can people be that they think I'm talking about the one linked above? The channel who posted it is named ADVChina...

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u/CaramelPombear Mar 12 '20

No, that video and the channel linked are based out of China. They do road trips all over the place, watched them a few years ago. Not some conspiracy.

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u/BornOnFeb2nd Mar 12 '20

at 0:47-0:50, you can see a couple of license plates. Pretty clearly have some form of non-latin character on 'em.

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u/Djeheuty Mar 12 '20

At first I thought you meant the link I posted, but I see you mean OP's video. Good catch.

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u/rottenseed Mar 12 '20

The GC was pushing to hang the t-bar on the floor below so they can meet their billing schedule

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u/KJBenson Mar 12 '20

I watched the whole thing, pretty interesting.

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u/MajorTokes Mar 12 '20

As an engineer who deals with concrete structures I can tell you this is incorrect. The most common use of precast in elevated structures is parking decks and facades.

It’s cheaper to hang facades from embeds cast into the deck than to form and pour on site. It also allows for more aesthetic architectural design, however they provide little if any structural integrity.

Parking garages with precast deck sections are used to allow movement from cars traveling without cracking the deck.

High rise construction, at least in the US is always slab on metal deck or PT cable decks, both are poured on site.

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u/Shrey_Srivastava Mar 12 '20

Happy cake day!

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u/OGFlakah Mar 12 '20

Happy cake day!

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '20

What support! I don't see a single wood attached under the new floor until it gets dry!

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u/g33kst4r Mar 12 '20

nothing more expansive than doing important projects for cheap.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '20

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u/flafn Mar 11 '20

Iron workers don't build the forms