Good Idea! & Duly Noted.
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From that article:
Public anger about poor-quality construction in the country peaked in May 2008 when thousands of children were buried and killed after an 8-magnitude earthquake caused school buildings to collapse in Sichuan.
Crikey
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Would Champlain Towers South qualify as tofu dreg?
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No.
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Between 2008 and 2011, Ai invoked China’s Freedom of Government Information Law to send government agencies more than 150 inquiries about the victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, whose official death toll was nearly 70,000. When he received no response, he filed suit against the Ministry of Civil Affairs…
Ai first visited the devastated region in June 2008 because he wanted to use the names of the dead schoolchildren in an artwork to commemorate the tragedy. He sought information from the Sichuan Post-Quake Reconstruction Office and recorded a cellphone conversation, featured in his 2009 documentary Hua Lian Ba Er (Dirty Faces), in which he is told, “The death toll is a secret.” Indeed, the government was not forthcoming with statistics about the dead, and because so many schools had collapsed, suspicions of corruption-fueled, shoddy building practices (“tofu construction”) began to circulate widely. The official death toll of 68,712 was released in late July, two and a half months after the quake. The government paid the parents of the dead schoolchildren for their silence.
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Mmmmmm…
I vote that it be a percentage type measurement. I mean, if 1 tRump = 100% total corruption, incompetence, and greed.
So, many Chinese regulators would be say 0.74 of a tRump.
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Probably not, so far it looks like the problems at Champlain Towers were issues of deferred inspection, maintenance, and repair. A lot of the buildings in question are failing in under a decade. To the extent that we know about construction and design problems (the pool and possible rebar problems) they didn’t manifest for a long time.
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Tempering does no good if your “steel” is a mix of unsorted scrap, pig iron high in sulfur and phosphorus, and whatever else the foundry could find to toss in. No matter how you heat treat it, it’ll be brittle, weak, and unsuitable to the task. Alloying is an art, and a science, but if you buy your steel from the lowest bidder all you’ll get is crap.
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Not just residential towers.
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