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For more guidance, see . The collapse of Block 7 at Lotus Riverside (simplified Chinese : 莲花河畔景苑; traditional Chinese : 蓮花河畔景苑; pinyin : lián huā hé pàn jǐng yuàn, a 13-story residential apartment building located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China) in 2009 is an accident that killed one person.
1975 Banqiao Dam failure. In August 1975, the Banqiao Dam and 61 others throughout Henan, China collapsed following the landfall of Typhoon Nina. [1][2][3][4] The dam collapse created the third-deadliest flood in history which affected 12,000 km 2 (3 million acres) with a total population of 10.15 million, including around 30 cities and ...
Tofu-dreg project. "Tofu-dreg project" (Chinese: 豆腐渣工程) is a phrase used in the Chinese-speaking world to describe a poorly constructed building, sometimes called just "Tofu buildings". The phrase was coined by Zhu Rongji, the former premier of the People's Republic of China, on a 1998 visit to Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province to ...
3-Way Interchange Flyover Bridge, A part of River Bridge; Concrete and steel bridge. Collapsed during construction, Design flaw in curvature section of a span resulted in collapse of a curved span slab during the removal of staging plates. 10 killed, 6 injured. Total collapse of one wing.
Quanzhou, Fujian, China Hotel 29 dead, 42 injured 2020 Caprigliola bridge collapse: Caprigliola, Tuscany, Italy Bridge 2 injured 2020 Lecheng Bridge: Sanxi, Jingde County, Anhui, China 1543-c. 1700 bridge as a tourist attraction 0 dead or injured 2020 Zhenhai Bridge: Huangshan City, Anhui, China 1536-1699 bridge as a tourist attraction 0 dead ...
The South–North Water Transfer Project, also translated as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, [1] is a multi-decade infrastructure mega-project in China that aims to channel 44.8 cubic kilometers (44.8 billion cubic meters) of fresh water each year [2] from the Yangtze River in southern China to the more arid and industrialized north through three canal systems: [3]
370,000 m 2 (4,000,000 sq ft) Lifts/elevators. 89. References. [1] Goldin Finance 117, also known as China 117 Tower (Chinese: 中国117大厦), is a supertall unfinished skyscraper in Xiqing District, Tianjin, China. The tower was topped out in 2015 at a height of 597 m (1,957 ft). It has 128 storeys above ground, with 117 of them intended for ...
A landslide of construction waste occurred at Shenzhen, on 20 December 2015. It destroyed and buried industrial buildings and worker living quarters in the nearby industrial park. The death toll was 73, with 4 people reported missing. [4] It was an industrial accident due to human negligence rather than a natural disaster.