The consequences of cost reduction

[miguel007]

This situation could happen anywhere but this is not the case. In the land were cheap labour is the key to industrialization, all is made and produced as cheap as possible. There are thousands of multinational European and America companies working there. Costs are rationalized in such a way that the products manufactured end up costing less than then shipping them to Europe. All is made at the lowest possible cost with a huge lack of Quality. Today I bring you the example of the consequences on reducing production/Quality costs. Fortunately no one died with the collapse of the balding as construction was in a final stage of production, so a major disaster was avoided, the entire structure simply fell, like a deck of cards... Somehow the foundations gave way but the building itself continues almost solid, the concrete used on the actual building at lest looks solid enough.

Check this out : http://zurcapital.blogspot.com/2010/...em-as-sua.html

[cblakey1]

Bad engineering?

[Andrew]

Wow, never thought I would see something like that!

[VinReaper]

WTF! Didn't they use long enough nails?



That is just bad engineering and architecture as CB said!

They should be immediately checking all the rest of the structures that were built by either the architectural or engineering firms that did this one.



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[VinReaper]

WTF! Didn't they use long enough nails?



That is just bad engineering and architecture as CB said!

They should be immediately checking all the rest of the structures that were built by either the architectural or engineering firms that did this one.



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[cblakey1]

Speaking of messed up architecture, my new building at work (1 year old) is being X-Rayed this weekend to investigate the status of the structure.

Glad I sit near a fire escape.

[Frankierock]

some work as of late is just pure Crap...When My wife and I were house hunting a few months back we saw some NEW homes....OMG they where put up so fast and Crappy...Companies taking to many shortcuts to save time and $$ is a reason things like this happen...

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by VinReaper

WTF! Didn't they use long enough nails?
VR

Nails are not used to keep up high rise buildings. It looks like it wasn't anchored into the foundations.

[Kingofthehill78]

Originally Posted by miguel007

This situation could happen anywhere but this is not the case. In the land were cheap labour is the key to industrialization, all is made and produced as cheap as possible. There are thousands of multinational European and America companies working there. Costs are rationalized in such a way that the products manufactured end up costing less than then shipping them to Europe. All is made at the lowest possible cost with a huge lack of Quality. Today I bring you the example of the consequences on reducing production/Quality costs. Fortunately no one died with the collapse of the balding as construction was in a final stage of production, so a major disaster was avoided, the entire structure simply fell, like a deck of cards... Somehow the foundations gave way but the building itself continues almost solid, the concrete used on the actual building at lest looks solid enough.

Check this out : http://zurcapital.blogspot.com/2010/...em-as-sua.html

Thats what happens when you use legos instead of real bricks...

[ReplicantSavior]

I saw this a while ago. I believe it's in China somewhere. There is a NSFW site that has stories about cheap Chinese products every once in a while. These days far too many people want more stuff for less money. Quality is the least of their concerns until something really bad happens...