There's gunna be a windfarm in my neighbourhood

[onetrack]

Have you seen the size of the foundations in high rise buildings, and done any rough calculations on the tonnage in those foundations? They are huge.

 

The primary aim of high rise foundation calculations is determining the soil type and stability. Any unstable soils require lengthy pilings.

 

The Chinese have made some serious errors in soil stability calculations for a number of their high rise buildings.

 

[nomadpete]

I was just pointing out that windage is simply an engineering consideration for all structures. 

[rgmwa]

7 hours ago, onetrack said:

 

The Chinese have made some serious errors in soil stability calculations for a number of their high rise buildings.

 

They got most of the design right. The building held together pretty well. 

Edited 9 hours ago by rgmwa

[Marty_d]

5 hours ago, rgmwa said:

They got most of the design right. The building held together pretty well. 

A bit too well - is that real? Never known bricks to stay together like that.

[rgmwa]

The basic structure is concrete but the bricks held on pretty well. I remember seeing pictures of a block of flats in Japan that toppled over in an earthquake like that with barely any structural damage. The embankment in the China photo seems to have slipped which might have triggered the collapse. 

[onetrack]

Or the disturbed footings caused the embankment landslip? There must be a lot of steel in that building framework, for it to lay there relatively intact, with big bends in it.

[rgmwa]

Could be and it looks pretty wet as well which suggests water had something to do with it too, especially being so close to a canal. Those units further along are probably going for a good price now.