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[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 26 points 2 years ago

Often wonder how places lose so many lives and buildings in relatively small earthquakes, then I see something like this and it all makes sense.

[+] runswithjedi@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It won't, these things look funky as all hell while under construction, but are a steel frame with the concrete walls just being the wall material. Usually they're covered later with any other whatever. Plaster, cement, decorative brick. The inside is either wall panels, plaster, dry wall or just polished concrete. The brick walls are internally tied down and clasped to the steel frame with steel wire and steel clamps. I've lived around buildings like these all my life, no they don't crumble easily. It's just that cement and steel are cheaper than wood around these parts. If anything, the worse part of the picture is the shoddy mason work, specially on the corners of the upper floor.

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then that’s an odd place to put a doorway wouldn’t a steel column be in the way? And if the walls are embedded in the frame wouldn’t we see steel columns on the corners?

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, it's a weird place for a door-frame but you can see the horizontal steel beams in the inter-floor space (I don't know what that's called in English) and the ceiling beams are obviously not floating on top of the brick, they are supported by vertical beams somewhere. The concrete brick is just a covering, none of those walls are structural. Though there's a way of building with structural brick and steel beam, but this is not it. The thing with steel beam is that it's deceptively stiff. You might think that it's too thin to be structurally sound, but structural steel beams can carry a lot of weight and resist deformation rather well. This is obviously not a professional construction, it's just not up to rich developed world standards, but like I said, that doesn't mean the building will fall.

[–] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago

Minecraft in real life.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Hmm, looks suspiciously like South Africa