Collapsed tower shoddy
By Li Xinran |
July 31, 2009, Friday
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THE television tower in northern China that collapsed on July 23 in a rainstorm was shoddily constructed, investigators have said.
The landmark tower of Jinzhou City in Hebei Province was under construction when it broke into three parts.
A task force investigating the incident said substandard materials and engineering led to the collapse, a Hebei-based newspaper said yesterday.
The building site and construction materials piled on it have been cordoned off.
The construction won't be resumed until the investigation is completed, said a task force official who declined to be named.
A test by the provincial architecture engineering quality inspection center before the collapse had suggested most of the construction was substandard. The test was made after a strong gale on April 20 moved the top of the tower.
A further analysis by the inspection center after the collapse said it was a "tofu building."
Technicians from the provincial academy of architecture sciences thought bad engineering caused non-uniform stress on the framework which was partially responsible for the collapse.
The 186.8-meter-tall tower had its steel structure fractured at 56 meters and 70 meters in the strong winds, which reached 79km an hour.
The landmark tower of Jinzhou City in Hebei Province was under construction when it broke into three parts.
A task force investigating the incident said substandard materials and engineering led to the collapse, a Hebei-based newspaper said yesterday.
The building site and construction materials piled on it have been cordoned off.
The construction won't be resumed until the investigation is completed, said a task force official who declined to be named.
A test by the provincial architecture engineering quality inspection center before the collapse had suggested most of the construction was substandard. The test was made after a strong gale on April 20 moved the top of the tower.
A further analysis by the inspection center after the collapse said it was a "tofu building."
Technicians from the provincial academy of architecture sciences thought bad engineering caused non-uniform stress on the framework which was partially responsible for the collapse.
The 186.8-meter-tall tower had its steel structure fractured at 56 meters and 70 meters in the strong winds, which reached 79km an hour.
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