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Originally Posted by towerguy3
Raising up buildings using hydraulic jacks is not uncommon; it's used at Bonzai Airport in Japan to level the building as the island it is built on is constantly sinking
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Kansai Airport near Osaka. Itr's not a constuction method - its just a way to counteract different rates of settling over different parts of the airport. i.e. the runways do not sink quickly, while the heavier terminal structure does. There was a Discovery Channel show on it a few years ago.
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