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B.I.B. said:

Sorry for the confusion popeye.I was refering to the last article on your previous [email protected] the life of me I cant see what Transformers have hot to do with selling real estate.

I think I have seen photos of collasped roadways/flyovers in some of your previous postings so I am not convinced that the cracks are harmless......
Is it normal?

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Equation said:

Those are just surface cracks meaning it doesn't penetrate deep into the core of the concrete/asphalt structure where the steel rebars are locate to caused any alarm (BUT CAN'T BE IGNORE), otherwise the engineers would've prohibit from further use. A lot of the cracks has to do with weather rain will erode road materials along with changing of temperature puts a lot of stress on the material.

Crack filling is a vital part of maintaining the life of your asphalt or concrete road. Otherwise the unmaintained cracks will allow water to penetrate the surface of the concrete/asphalt causing the gravel base and the concrete/asphalt to erode. This can cause sink holes, pot holes, and over time premature replacement of your road and not to mention very costly. Water is a very powerful and patience force, just imagine a rushing river carving out a canyon is my analogy for it. I hope this answers your question.

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kwaigonegin said:

the fact that there are so many cracks and the cracks are relatively wide but short tells me they are surface as well. It's it's one long deep crack then time to start worrying.

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kwaigonegin said:

baby trafficking? I would put that up there with violent crimes such as rape and 1st degree assault. He needs a long jail time for him to think over his actions.

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kwaigonegin said:

baby trafficking? I would put that up there with violent crimes such as rape and 1st degree assault. He needs a long jail time for him to think over his actions.

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Zhang, the 56-year-old doctor, is suspected of having persuaded couples to give up their babies over the past eight years.

She was exposed only recently when a couple became suspicious and reported her to the police.

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kwaigonegin said:

the fact that there are so many cracks and the cracks are relatively wide but short tells me they are surface as well. It's it's one long deep crack then time to start worrying.

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Blackstone said:

Maybe they should consider using Roman concrete.

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SteelBird said:

No matter how, they have started the construction. All my best wishes to them and hope they would finish it on schedule.

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kroko said:

I didnt knew that they had already started construction.

However, besides safety, what bothers me most is that how this building is going to be profitable, seeing that there is already a real estate bubble in china. This tower is getting built in what seems an undeveloped area of a city that isnt even that economically important. Had this been in beijing or shanghai, it would make more sense.

Lets face it. This is a project to claim the "tallest building in the world" title.

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Obcession said:

I actually highly doubt this project will ever be finished, at least without major changes. Broad Group has only built 4 prefabbed buildings before, the tallest of which was only 30 storeys, so the experience is definitely not there. A building this tall will need to have vertical and torsional stiffness to resist extremely high lateral wind loads, for example, using giant concrete filled steel columns extending through the whole height of the building (i.e. Taipei 101) or a concrete core with buttressed concrete walls protruding from the core (i.e. Burj Khalifa). In my mind it would be very difficult to achieve the needed stiffness of the structure without using concrete, as they are proposing. Even if they do, the concrete would have to be cured in stages, so in order to build 204 floors in 90 days, they would need to build on average slightly more than 2 floors per day. Concrete cure time, as a rule of thumb, is 7 days to strip forms and 28 days to achieve workable structural strength. So there is no way they can meet the 90 days schedule they are proposing.

The Shanghai Tower sure is impressive though!

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superdog said:

It is possible to build skyscrapers without using concrete. While the concrete core design is popular, other structures such as steel framed bundled tube has been demonstrated in buildings like the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) a long time ago. I suspect that the Sky City may use a similar structural design given its geometry in the CG picture.

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It is possible that the project may not finish in the time frame they advertised, it is also questionable whether the project will be profitable (not counting its advertising value for the company and the city). But I wouldn't worry too much about structural safety. Given what's at stake, it is highly unlikely they will ever start building anything without a build plan that has been extensively scrutinized and tested for its feasibility and safety.

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