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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCoronavirus: Dozens trapped as China quarantine hotel collapses
https://news.yahoo.com/china-hotel-collapse-dozens-trapped-143109712.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatcaAbout 70 people were trapped after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed.
About 35 people have been pulled from the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel, officials say.
Videos posted online show emergency workers combing through the building's wreckage in the southern province of Fujian.
It is not clear what caused the collapse or if anyone has died.
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Coronavirus: Dozens trapped as China quarantine hotel collapses (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Mar 2020
OP
US tried to build a pedestrian bridge in two days.. collapsed killing people... last year
Demovictory9
Mar 2020
#5
university in Miami in 2018. "excelerated construction". Killed many. was huge story
Demovictory9
Mar 2020
#8
Faux pas
(14,689 posts)1. Wonder
if that was one of the hotels they built in a week? Yikes!
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)3. "The hotel reportedly opened in 2018 and had 80 guest rooms."
jimfields33
(15,915 posts)2. This is at least two collapses in a short time
Im glad the United States doesnt build a high rise in 10 days.
I hope those 70 get out safely.
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)5. US tried to build a pedestrian bridge in two days.. collapsed killing people... last year
jimfields33
(15,915 posts)6. That's awful!!!!!
sl8
(13,857 posts)7. Where was that? n/t
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)8. university in Miami in 2018. "excelerated construction". Killed many. was huge story
sl8
(13,857 posts)11. I remember, but that was a 2+ year project, not 2 days.
Unless Wikipedia is way off:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_University_pedestrian_bridge_collapse
I'm not suggesting that they did a good job, but was planned to take far longer than 2 days.
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)4. pics from daily fail
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,136 posts)9. Kick
Nitram
(22,845 posts)10. China developed infrastrucure at a breakneck speed to meet quotas and state-imposed deadlines.
The result has often been shoddy construction, and no regulatory oversight. Sort of what we'd get in the US if Trump got a second term.