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Originally Posted by Roadcruiser1
What the hell are you guys talking about? Do you guys have any background to engineering? These buildings are prefabricated. It's a technology that dates way back. There are plenty of buildings in the United States that were prefabricated. This includes the former World Trade Center. It's made like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and assembled on site. If what you guys said is true than a quarter of the buildings in the United States aren't structurally sound because they are prefabricated. Don't be ignorant..........
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I was just simply implying that the building codes aren't as strict in some of these developing nations. Maybe I came across as saying that it will collapse but I didn't mean that, just saying and implying that lack of proper codes can lead to accidents or increase the chances of it happening down the line.
The indonesia building collapse was mentioned because I was saying how in the lust for money, often safety goes unchecked.
"Rana Plaza's architect, Massood Reza, said the building was planned for shops and offices – but not factories. Other architects stressed the risks involved in placing factories inside a building designed only for shops and offices.
Other architects stressed the risks involved in placing factories inside a building designed only for shops and offices."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...factories.html