The Tofu Building Incidents
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The in-depth story of the Chinese Tofu Building Incidents. Imagine just taking out a huge loan to buy your own newly built apartment, but the stairs collapsed, and your ceiling fell apart. It’s not just homes that crumble but infrastructure as well.
Everywhere you go, things are collapsing. Almost every collapse brings talk of change, but then it happens again, and the outcome has been tragic.
In Chinese media, these construction disasters became known as *Tofu dreg projects*.
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This video seems less about actual disasters and more about you pushing a radical far right anti Chinese agenda... Consider yourself unsubscribed. Stick to your fucking lane, dude...
Gotta say this was a perfect 1:1 since even the western news feeds on China are heavy on propaganda.
(Like citing Epoch Times)
Nothing linked in the description
"Imagine trying to leave your apartment..."
Now you're being unreasonable
Especially in China...they were the first to lock people in (literally) during the virus.
Indeed, I think I'll stay tyvm
_When the agoraphobic comments appear_
@@aydenuploadz Its a joke you fool
@@aydenuploadz🤕 ouch, your an animal.
In the case of Turkey. There was one city where almost no buildings were damaged and thats because that cities mayor refused to take bribes and made sure builders followed the proper building practices.
They didn't learn from the Earthquake in 1999, the City Düzce looked like a Warzone.
Actually, the reason was in the different type of soil, you can google it
It's insane they went after the developers of the buildings when it's the officials and President who made it legal to sell/occupy them...
China: Build it fast and cheap.
Also China: Don't talk about failures or you'll disappear.
Only a moron believes damage from natural disasters is a quality issue. The 2 most egregious construction failures in the video were in the usa. The condo collapse and the damn fialure that the video tried to pretend happened in china.
I swear 💯💯
Have you seen our nifty bridge shorts?? Everything's 'Amazing" and "Only China could do this"..............
Is only 10% of new bulding
And imagine how many will die because of that 10%@@carkawalakhatulistiwa
It should also be noted that, due to extreme levels of censorship by the Chinese government, most of this footage has to be effectively "smuggled" out of the country in the first place, so this is realistically only a small glimps of a (most likely) much bigger issue in China...
In other case. There was a bus incident at a bridge. People commemorate the memorial of the victims, but authorities prevented this as usual
Yeah ok dude. China has social media. There is no way in hell a building of any significance is going to collapse and the "Chinese government" is going to be able to hide it. Impossible in todays world.
Not really, chinese social media is pretty much accessible anywhere, and most of this is from official news sites and/or posted onto chinese social media.
Yeah, we all read mandarin
@@Emzo123 Its one direction however. Foreigners can access Chinese social media, while Chinese cannot access outside world.
Also, the government censoring things is very common practice
It's like buildings are made to be assets that are merely traded and sold rather than for actually living in
This happens in America, to a lesser extent, china *is* 2008, but bigger
So they wouldnt want to protect their investment?!?!
@@ltfreebornDepends on which apartments and condos. I heard the ones from West Virginia and Florida are safe. I might move there long term.
@ltfreeborn I think this is an unfair comparison. As much we dunk on America for this (which, in fairness, is happening across the Western World as well), at least the houses being built aren't made with substandard material due to strict housing regulations.
China's regulation system is notoriously haphazard due to systemic corruption.
@@mrconroy4672 Florida's safe? Tell that to the people who lived in Champlain Towers!
In Canada at the moment, we are facing something of a housing crisis. People always say things like "loosen the building codes and we can build more houses faster", and as an Architect I continuously cited the Turkey earthquake as to why we should not. Now I have other incidents to point to as to why we shouldn't.
Rule #1- don't loosen building codes. America has a glut of post-regulatory-loosening McMansions that, while not collapsing tragedies, are already falling apart due to poor materials and bad design.
There are loads of houses in Europe that have been standing for hundreds of years before building codes were invented. Craftsmanship versus a quick profit makes a huge difference I suspect.
aboput canadas social programs ... all the money goes to the administrators of such programs not to actually building or helping people , just used for salary for one of the dozens of workers in that rural department
@@ajikpajik9331every country thats had humans living in it after the stone age has buildings still standing that are hundreds of years if not 1000s years old. Maintenance is the key.
@jaerockchalk3216 you mean some of the money goes to pay for the people to do the work they are hired to do? Such an interesting concept. Also, very much not related to what we are talking about in any way.
It's so scary, at one moment you are in your bed, sleeping peacefully, in the next moment you are trapped in a hell of concrete, dust and fire... Nobody should experience such a tragedy!
*Surfside condominium collapse*
@@rtqii Same idea, just way less common in western countries.
I disagree. There ARE people who should experience it, and that's the people who made these materials and built these structures.
Another chapter in the textbook titled “Why We Have All Those Pesky Government Regulations.”
Another chapter in "american exceptionalism makes a pathetic attempt to blame damage done by natural disaster on chinese construction while ignoring all their own glaring short comings in the construction field while pretending to be superior".
@@bradsanders407 Not a pathetic attempt chinaman, it was spot on.
@@bradsanders407 No one said anything about America being superior either
@@bradsanders407
Where in OP's comment was anything about America or China mentioned?? You just outted yourself as a CCP mole/sympathiser.
@@bradsanders407whataboutism 😂😂 no one mentioned america. Rent free wumao
I'm glad to see more and more mainstream channels talking about this. It's not just in China that they're building infrastructure like this, but also in other countries who've agreed to have projects done by the Chinese government or companies.
it's ironic that the same real estate and infrastructure that were Xi-Jinping's strongest arguments for staying in power, now look to become his downfall. China's real estate market has collapsed, taking a huge chunk of the financial market with it and it doesn't look like things will be improving.
I am no fan of china, especially from the standpoint of their IP stealing and shady business practices, but i feel like some of these incidents are par for the course. What i mean is that with so much building and expansion, it is a reasonable assumption that 1-3% of the projects aren't properly regulated and need to be repaired or demolished (which even happens on sky scrapers we have in the west)
its obvious that they are capable of building incredible projects at an almost suspiciously fast pace, it seems the problem may lie in how little recourse people have if something is wrong or someone more important than them has failed spectacularly. although that may be somewhat true in the west, the parents of those children would have sued the socks off the city and any firm involved if it happened here, which would motivate other firms to do things right, purely for profit. the accountability in some of these less important chines projects may be the problem
@@HanTheProphet very true!!!
What on gods green earth are you blathering about? Name one building, that another country, for whatever reason, had the chinese government construct that then collapsed. Just one. Oh, that's right, you can't cause you are just spouting off about things you have no clue about. China is a hell of a lot bigger than the usa yet the usa has buildings and bridges collapse all the time. Just today a road fell victim to land slide in the tetons. Yet when it happens in china its "mUh sTuPiD cHiNkS dOnT nOw nUtTiN". Chinas infrastructure is far superior to the usa so western conservative media has to try to pretend like their buildings wouldn't collapse in a 7.9 earthquake. And when they do its a "act of god" and in china its "sTuPiD cHiNkS". Ridiculous
@@HanTheProphet From what I know is China's problems in large parts actually down to a single Construction Company that by cutting all cost possible to be as fast and cheap as possible not only lowered standards of all competition to compete at all but also got so many jobs that they build like half of all new buildings in the country.
This lead to a giant array of houses build that will fall apart with in 10+ years.
(they also got a giant boost due to there cheapness attracting common people which only way to "own" anything by law is land making it and buildings on it a high demand thing)
The company by now has taken giant hits from the Government taking actions about there collapsing projects that keep bringing in bad news for the country tho.
And Chinas Super projects aren't safe ether from the issues. So far do they just get far better maintenance and so don't fall apart as fast than buildings made for the "private" individuals.
"you just took out a huge loan after working your whole life to buy your own apartment" damn, that first line made me think of little Jhon, galvanized square steel videos have ruined me.
Idea for the next video: The Wisconsin Butter Fire.
A warehouse fire in Madison, Wisconsin resulted in a massive flood of molten cheese and butter.
Truly one of the most outlandish (but true) disasters in history!
😱 When was that?!
@@gohawks3571 May 3, 1991.
@@taotaoliu2229 Wow, so recent! Was thinking the 1800s or something, like beer floods. How terrifying!
@@gohawks3571 There was the Boston Mollasses Flood in 1919. Weird stuff happens when you industrialize rapidly
Wow
China's policies that incentivize the purchase of newly-built homes over existing homes are partly to blame for the tofu dreg problem. By artificially increasing demand for newly-built homes and reducing demand for existing homes, they helped create the conditions to encourage developers to build as many homes as possible as quickly and cheaply as possible. That's how corners get cut and safety gets ignored.
Yeah ok. The thing is every building collapse in the video except for one and the one in the usa were a result of natural disasters. That has nothing to do with poor quality. If so i guess the usa has a massive tofo problem seeing how despite tornados hittimg the same areas every single year they still cant make a home to withstand one. But when it happens in china its "mUh sTuPiD cHinKS dOnT KnOw nUtTiN" and in the usa its "an act of god". Pathetic
Well, shouldn't It be reasonable to purchase newly built house than existing one, due to laters depreciation due to age
@@chakraborty1989 There's upsides and downsides. With new buildings, the downsides are they're often nestled in the middle of nowhere (or next to really loud things like highways, railway stations, airports, etc), have some hidden faults that no one's had to live with and discover yet, if you pre-order, there's no guarantee the developer won't go belly-up before it's finished, and they're overall more expensive. Issue with China is the real estate you purchase legally stops being yours after 70 years of its existence.
@@chakraborty1989not really. Older homes in most of the world are more likely to be situated in more livable neighbourhoods. More walkable, bigger sense of community. Older houses that have been maintained are just as strong if not stronger than cookie cutter houses in the suburbs.
@@chakraborty1989 You're missing the point. China has policies that make it cheaper and easier to get loans for newly built homes than for existing ones. That leads to artificial depreciation of existing homes, and an incentive for developers to constantly be demolishing old homes to build new ones as quickly and cheaply as possible, whether the older homes are better built than the new ones or not (spoiler: the older homes are usually built to higher standards than the new ones that replace them, and would be worth more if it wasn't for the policies incentivizing new homes). That's a huge part of what's driven China's housing bubble and the explosive growth and subsequent implosion of Evergrande which has rocked China's entire economy.
12:10 um, to be fair, the ‘tofu dreg’ infrastructure seen in China is way different than what occurred at the condo high rise in South Florida.
In the case of China, they are already built with Tofu dreg and don’t last long. That condo high rise lasted decades and only collapsed because of poor maintenance and long term neglect by the building owners, due to money, poor drainage of highly salient water leading to it going into the siding of the building and ultimately deteriorating the support columns
Fair, but didn't they also find that the rebar inside the columns at Surfside was put in all inferior, which weakened the concrete? So a little similar.
You forgot the columns that were not the correct size- several of the K line columns were designed to be bigger, they built them smaller to fit more space above them and make larger floorplans in the apartments and more space in the parking garage. It is the same bait and switch as dozens of other collapses- design is actually good, but poor decisions when building and insufficient change request reviews cause the final project to not match the prints. Most of the time it is due to poor project management and not to malice, but sometimes the builders want to pocket more and do less.
Hearing all this would make me think twice about walking across one of those glass bridges!
Huh? A video showing damage from natural disaster spun to try and make it sound likeit was poor construction has you acared to walk on a bridge? If you think china has a bridge issue wait til you hear about the usa.
11:48 A 40 year old building collapsing due to poor maintenance is rather different than 5-10 year old structures collapsing due to shoddy build quality.
Agreed. A big issue with the Surfside collapse was the lack of a reserve fund to cover the huge maintenance costs uncovered after the 40 year inspection. In order to fund the necessary repairs, the tenants would have had to pay condo fees in the tens of thousands of dollars. It’s an unrealistic ask all at once-even someone who can afford a million dollar condo can’t necessarily cough up an extra $10,000 out of nowhere.
The original developer and contractors are definitely responsible for some questionable and shoddy decisions, but the situation 40+ years on is a little more nuanced than the typical Chinese tofu dreg construction scenario. Which, isn’t to say that there wasn’t a criminal negligence or disregard for tenet safety in the case of Surfside.
Yeah and that building had both. No building anywhere should collapse after 40 years even with 0 maintenance lol.
@emilycrewe3794 nonsense. A 40 year old building should never require that level of repair. Im in the building restoration business so im as well qualified as anyone to speak on the matter. If it does require a million+ in repair its cause it wasnt built/designed worth a damn. Especially in the south where the temperature rarely gets below freezing. Just more american exceptionalism by americans pretending to be superior and making up excuses for their short comings.
That was a blatant attempt at mollifying the ChiCom government.
Even if the maintenance was non-existent, no decently built structure will collapse like that. The build quality WAS shoddy, corners were cut, and plans were changed to cut costs.
I am happy to see a channel with a more general focus covering Chinese issues.
The girl’s volleyball disaster was heartbreaking when I first heard of it. I’m glad you’ve highlighted it again ♥️
@ChinaInsiderWithDavidZhang Talks a lot about Tofu Dreg incidents and their effects on the Chinese population along with the suppression of information within China.
Also China Insights
Yet the vast majority of this video was simply showing natural disaster damage. 2 collapses were in the usa. The damn they pretended to be in china and the surfside they actually admitted was in the usa.
Tofu Dreg often simply called "Chinesium"
I feel like he explained the Tofu dreg in China quite well. If he teamed up with Serpentza, he would be unbeatable at covering disasters like this.
You can Anglify "tofu dreg project" as "breadcrumb buildings."
Oh can we anglify that? Or you could anglify that its actually damage from freaking natural disaster. Ive yet to see any country anywhere that is impervious to such events. Especially in the usa as noted by all the tornado destruction of late.
Tofu Dreg Project is already English enough.
One error or misinformation is at 0:52. The dam colapse in the video is from the USA - Lake Dunlap dam 14.5.2019
Strange error when there are so many dam collapses in China to choose from. Most of them were built in the Mao era at the same time the US and Soviets were damming rivers so, of course, China tries to one-up everyone at the expense of human life and massive amounts of money. Many of the dams did not have engineers involved, others had no stated purpose for their construction, others simply had neither the budgets or or time to be built right. Ten thousand were built, and dozens collapse every year since.
Whoa! Thank you for the info@@samsonsoturian6013that's mind-blowing. Didn't know that.
I expected better of the channel to fact check what they got. Instead whoever edited this video saw Chinese watermarks from a repost of the clip and assumed it happened in China. Sloppy work.
If you're going to be critical of China you better damn well have watertight evidence, or detractors will use errors you make to poke holes in your argument.
@@samsonsoturian6013 I'd like to read more about this, where can I find the sources?
👍🤦♂️
This is what happens when you have lax safety standards, dodgy quality inspections and irresponsible construction companies. Along with province officals being self serving, only caring about face.
it's not only poor building materials and poor construction standards, it's also a general lack of maintenance that occurs on all levels.
throw in the rampant corruption on top of these problems and it's easy to see why buildings seemingly fall apart with ease
But we built it with extra firm tofu! None of that silken crap! I promise!
Thank you for taking my suggestion and covering Tofu construction.
Next thing you know they will be making Pasta Plazas.
Dang, I thought drywall was bad☹️
Yeah I have no idea how china has managed to make drywall look stronger than concrete
@@TwistedCyclonix "Chinese drywall" refers to an environmental health issue involving defective drywall manufactured in China, imported to the United States and used in residential construction between 2001 and 2009 - affecting "an estimated 100,000 homes in more than 20 states". Wikipedia
@@rtqiiyeah im in the home remodeling business and have never seen any bad drywall. Just more made up nonsense by american exceptionalist.
@@TwistedCyclonixwhat are you talking about? You have no clue do you?
Drywall isn't a problem. It's used because it's way faster to install, less dangerous to demo (dust) and 10 times lighter than concrete. It also is much smoother a finish.
The problem is that people don't put enough studs in walls or they don't reinforce properly behind the drywall
What happens when the basics of civilization and living- food, water, and shelter- are treated as investments rather than the foundational necessities for the societies to continue
What happens when a group of people are barred from the basics? Well, history shows exactly what happens and China has seen it many times from one Dynasty to another
I hadn’t heard of any of these incidents in China. That gym collapse is galling; who the f*** allowed the materials to be stored up there?!!
You don't hear these because we get TONS of prop--aganda that constantly focuses on the few incidents in other countries.
These things happen daily over there
And the CCP is to Blame for this and all other problems in China especially ones like food safety
When you make it out of Tofu what do you expect?
I'm going to assume this is satire and I'm just being too literal, but: it isn't actually made out of tofu. "Tofu Dreg" is just the phrase used to indicate low quality, but tofu isn't used in the building materials themselves.
@@shadowdemon2272 Far too literal. Tofu Buildings just as bad as tofu food!
@@curfuffle7420its make believe nonsense. Buildings collapsing during a 7.9 earthquake has next to nothing to do with quality issues. Just like roofs collapsing when too much weight is put on them or roads washing away in landslides (like what happened today in the superior usa up in the Tetons). This was nothing but western propaganda to try and make a superior country to itself look bad. How did all those superior usa homes stand up to all those tornados recently? Where the earthquake in the video took place at the very least wasnt a place where earthquakes are common. The same cant be said about all the tornado destruction in the usa. Every single freaking year those areas get tornadoes yet cant seem to make a structure that will remain standing after being hit with one. Talk about tofo construction.
@@bradsanders407 and this, friends in all spectrums, is what we know as "part of the propaganda arm of the CCP"! Seriously, they have an entire governmental division, with highly-paid (and corrupt) officials, whose entire job is to spread positive stories on social media, and post badly-written post with humiliating grammatical and spelling errors, in videos/posts that call out their lies.
@@shadowdemon2272 🤣
Imagine somehow sleeping through the building collapse and then waking up the next morning to see your room like this 12:30
Earthquakes and this is why I fear sitting under and being on bridges in a vehicle and also why I fear being in parking structures. I have the Loma Prieta quakes and the Northridge Quake to thank for that.
This. If I gotta be in any structure during an earthquake, it would be my own mid-century, single story wood-frame home.
"...after working your whole life to buy your own apartment..."
completely unhinged and unreasonable, you can only rent for 70 years
Its sad to think that all of that could have been avoided by using galvanized square steel
Cutting corners leads to disaster. It’s not just in construction, but in maintenance.
Could you do a video on the Oceana explosion in Gothenburg, Sweden earlier this year? The incident killed 1 and injured a few and it's not been covered enough internationally in my opinion.
And maybe the Stenungsund E6 collapse.
While it fortunately didn't do more than injure a handful of people it did completely destroy a motorway. If nothing else the pictures look pretty unreal.
Another (local) issue I want more to care about is Malmbanan and its more frequent and costly issues.
It isn't as disastrous as the topics usually covered. And might not be interesting for the wider audience.
But it is a vital part of northern Sweden's infrastructure, and frankly it has been neglected for too long.
I haven't read about any updates from the Oceana explosions in the last few months that have mentioned if they determined a definitive cause or not, but was under the impression that there was a likely build-up of extremely flammable gases and vapors that pooled within the tubing of the waterslides that were being welded together on site and done in an unsafe manner. Seems to fit with the video of what happened.
@@dieselbaby just seeing this now, and after looking at a drone vid of the aftermath, I do see confusing hints of over-pressurization on the far wall of the dome section, confusing as the white plastic covering the roof isn't singed at all at that end, all the fire damage is at the other end on the other side of the rectangular building and slides. That may take time to figure out what triggered what, esp for people that don't speak the language.
Normal Chinese Designs:
Thank you for covering this, this needed more coverage
The dam at 52 seconds was in the US, not china
Wait...so were people just walking around their buildings intentionally crumbling the shoddy cement? Like...what did you think would happen? At minimum, you're making the collapse happen sooner rather than later.
This is heart breaking. None of these people had to die. It hurts even more when you talked about how students died because of shoddy construction and skimmed funds. I am so sick of this being global at this point. Greed is global. People are not disposable. Thank you for covering this.
I like this style of video, you take multiple incidents showing a pattern and it's amazing 👏🤩
Showing a damn failure in the usa and pretending it happened in china as well as showing nothing but damage from natural disasters and pretending it was from poor quality is amazing to you? Look in your own backyard sweetheart if you want to see a pattern of poor quality construction.
You should have seen the high speed rail train that fell off the tracks and they dug a hole and buried it in place with the bodies still in it.
Most successful chinese rescue
Honestly, for some reason I find that really beautiful and cost saving ❤
which incident? there have been two fatal high speed rail accidents so far
@@realtissaye damn. Both incidents dug a hole and buried the rail trains in place with the bodies in it ? If not then that's the incident they clearly wrote and referring too....
@@realtissayethere have been a lot more than 2 high-speed train derailments. The US even has slow-speed train derailments all the time.
Great product placement. For real that actually made me think about it
Love tour videos, I found them so riveting. Keep It up!
May you make a video in the future about italian disasters?
In the UK we have a structural evaluation report ,to be presented to a mortgage company before they would grant a mortgage or not,depending on what the surveyors report finds.
Your videos scare me but i like watching them, Hi!
I just realized you can’t just crumble your way out because there are layers of it above you, it’s heavy and then you will most likely inhale the dust.
Oh dont worry about the dust. You wont be breathing by then anyway.
The collapsed building gets cleared and the materials from that get ground down, mixed together and pushed out to build the next building….wash, rinse, repeat
Source?
Awesome video thanks
Thank you for your great videos.
Bruh, that Turkey earthquake had literally wippied out an entire city 💀💀
Tofu projects are everywhere in China
Those poor volleyball players
There's a similar problem we're facing the the uk with a specific type of concrete - raac concrete. It was used a lot in the past, including in the construction of schools, and is now crumbling and putting many in danger
China Uncensored has covered this topic in their reporting.
If they had used galvanized square steels and eco friendly wood veneer durable for 10000 years this would never happened
Where is the link that should be in the description for the other video?
I like my nice, boring house. Built on the ground, with a basement where I can plainly see the bricks and beams holding it up.
I use to think that whenever videos showing such outrageous construction disasters highlighted more of the exception rather than the rule. Over the past five years I’ve come to an informed conclusion that the reality of all tofu dreg videos I’ve seen on the internet is a gross under representation of the reality that’s hidden and silenced from being seen by the public.
Remember kids, corruption starts and goes from the top-down!
My condolences for those wrongfully affected by tofu dreg construction. ❀✿
So a video showing natural disaster damage is proof of some grand conspiracy eh? Whats your take on all the damage from natural disasters in the states just this year? I guess usa has massive "tofo dreg" problem.
What gets me isn't how fragile and crumbling the buildings are, but how they can even be assembled and look like decent building in the first place.
12:42 where in description?
SerpentZA and Laowhy talk about this for years.
China Insights and China Observer has plenty of videos on "tofu dreg" constructions in China.
I love your vids.
Really well done video, the sound is perfect.
It's scary Mother Nature doesn't fool around))
I don't think any amount of galvanized square stell, any type of eco friendly wood veneers, and any amount of borrowed expanding screws would fix this institutional corruption.
Many lives are seriously lost, probably Little John too. 😢
Omg why do people never learn. We may complain about rules and regulations but they're there for a reason. Thanks for another interesting vid!
I already knew about the school thing from the China Show. Still pretty sad so many people were taken because of corruption.
2:34 that one is also similiar happened to bocimi toll road in Indonesia, 2 month ago before this
what happens when you don't use galvanized steel beams and eco friendly wood veneer secured to the wall using screws you borrowed from your aunt
Building a road on a slope isn't necessarily an issue if it's built properly. A road in Scotland on the way to where my relatives lived was changed from the valley to the hillside. The design allowed for Scottish rain (frequent), waterfalls, lorries etc etc. It has solid foundations and in over 50 years is only closed when snowfall exceeds a particular level.
These "real or cake" challenges are getting out of hand
Road washed out by erosion happens every day also in occidental countries. Nobody cares to much keeping the water drains from contention walls clean. I remember a huge rock falling into the highway A8 near Bilbao (Spain) in 2005.
this is a very interesting video to watch right after consuming a lot of galvanized square steel content
Funny that older buildings were still standing after the earthquake while new and more "modern" ones were mostly damage or completely collapsed.
It's not just the corruption, but the general policy. Large, often Government owned, construction companies bid for jobs and get them. However these companies and just offices. So the sub-contract the job, taking a slice of the money. This repeats several times each company taking a slice of the budget till it gets to the smaller company who are going to do the work. But by this time the profit is so small corners have to be cut. Such things as bamboo instead of rebar, inferior materials, etc. Throw in the building boom and even the big companies are struggling and even going bust.
The Champlain towers collapse is not even remotely the same as Tofu Dreg buildings. It was 40+ year old building next to the coast that wasn't maintained because the HOA and occupants couldn't afford or agree to fix the buildings issues.
The surfside video isnt linked as stated in the vid
interesting video
It's plainly difficult tripped me out
This is what happens when you have a woefully corrupt government. So sad. 😪
Buildings gone just like my Social Credit
good vid
I'm glad I live in a country with lots of earthquakes bc people are obligated to built steady buildings
omg i feel so sorry for those people in china. the US has an infrastructure issue too, most of our infrastructure was built 100yrs ago. we're def gonna need to replace it soon
This is one reason I am wary of new buildings. If a building has stayed up with minimal or no issues for 10-20 years, it's likely to continue to do so for another 20 years.
Little John would be able to fix these up in a minute! Just some screws borrowed from your aunt, some galvanised square steel and some eco friendly wood veneer.
8:46 PERLITE? SERIOUSLY?!!! WHAT THE HELL! .............. why not the excavator next?!
Don’t live downriver from Three Gorges Dam. I think it’s already showing problems.
I would expect nothing less from a Chinese manufactured product.
"The news of the highway incident has been covered by more than 227 news outlets"....so 228? 500? 10000?
they clearly thinking ahead and make the building out of soft material so that when it collaped it wouldn't hurt much
they should eat tofu not build with it
Dude, I'd just quit my city job and move to a small country town or something making aquamarine pigments.
It's not the most important part, but the dam failure at 00:52 was actually in the US(lake dunlap) and failed after 88 years of use(according to wikipedia)...
I wouldn't really call that a tofu dreg type failure
Great video though :)
It’s sad to what happened to the surfside building
that is a horrifying disaster... your home is supposed to be your one safe place