Living in the UK I believe everyone has a respect for the building regulations we work under. When a new building is erected, we all expect it to be safe and remain so for decades. In China, those regulations either don't seem to exist, or at least are well below what the western world has come to expect.
An example of how bad the building work can be in China has become apparent as we've progressed through 2011. A number of tower blocks were built and completed in January of this year in the Zhejiang province of China. Each block is 68 meters high and is used for residential apartments. The problem is, one of those blocks started to lean soon after building work was completed. At first it was dismissed as the building settling, but then the angle of the lean continued to get worse.
An evacuation was carried out over the weekend, and now the construction company has to decide how to proceed. The problem is made worse by the fact several other blocks are in close proximity meaning if it does collapse it could take other blocks with it in a domino effect.
It looks like the only way to proceed is to call in the professionals and implode the tower block thus saving the surrounding blocks. But even then, if the foundations of this block are not sound, what's to say the others are?
Source: China Explosion blog (Chinese language)
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