It's the cladding, which is often made out of flammable materials such as polystyrene/plastic. Flammable cladding is illegal in most countries, but every now and then it gets through such as in the Grenfell tower apartment building fire in the UK a few years back.
In that case it was produced in the US, and while ilegal for sale here, it is legal for export and at the time the UK had no laws against it's instalation.@@AwesomeFish12
Idk what's scarier. The genius engineers are smart enough to built paper houses 50 floors tall or even these geniuses who built literally a nation are definitely still underpaid.
I used to think all the cheap products made in China were exported and kept the better products for local consumption but your videos show me they’re victims of their own junk as well.
The truth is worse than that. There are ~some~ quality inspections that happen before being shipped abroad when under a foreign name brand. Pop up Chinese brands don't have any inspections ( aka Temu ). Thus, Chinese eat the rankest, nastiest, and most disgusting of their own dog food (which is probably laced with melamine).
Honestly if anything it looks like it might be the opposite where they export the better products and keep the inferior ones for local consumption. Which is frightening in its own way.
In the US, government inspectors would reject shoddy or dangerous products and ofrce the sellers to refund the the customer. In China, the government are commercial partners of the construction company.
@@depressingNicolai-sv8ky In USA you'd be so depressed.... This is the kind of nonsense with which the "European Garden" tries to justify its horrific crimes.
Same way a sand castle stands. Long enough to maybe take a few pictures, but worn away by the weather and time quite quickly afterward, and then it's just luck if it stays standing any longer.
I live in a house in London built by the Victorians in 1870. It is still solid and will be a safe home which my son and his family will continue to enjoy. In fact, the older the property the more it is valued in England. I feel lucky to own this house with all of its wonderful features.
@@maskanipoa5348 The 'Chinese' as we now call them did NOT build the Great Wall. The Chinese Empire/Republic of China, the people who gave us the Great Wall, invented gunpowder, Ming vases, and all that, were attacked and defeated by Communists (backed by, of course, the Russians/Soviets) in the 1920s, and by the late 1940s the Communists had pushed the Chinese out of mainland China and into Taiwan, where they remain to this day. The Communists then decided THEY were the Chinese and claimed Chinese history as their own. The real Chinese therefore, the ones who built the Great Wall, are actually who we now call the Taiwanese. And the real Chinese *can* build sturdy buildings and invent technology.....
My parents once had a pre war house near Newcastle on Tyne, north east England. I helped my dad do quite a bit of diy in that property and it was built like a bunker!!! I recall the bricks being so hard that even with a powerful hammer drill it took serious effort to drill holes in them!! The whole place was just so solid. The only poor part was that on the ground floor it was a wooden floor over earth. The structure of the floor was fine but it was draughty and cold. Even the interior doors were so solid that you would break your foot if you tried to kick them in!! Modern UK houses can be pretty rubbish in comparison, but nothing like the horror show seen here!!!
Yes - much farming in China is on toxic land and fish are fed chemicles to fatten them up and grapes are sprayed to make them swell up. Visitors are advised to buy imported bottled soft drinks as the local ones are often just raw dirty water full of impurities and parasites. So the leadership get their own food grown on secure farms.
Don't expect anyone to be building anything to last when you don't own the land you're building it on. Remember you can't buy land in China, you can lease it from the government for 70 years after which it returns to it's rightful owner, the party. I'm sure they expected a 70 year loop of infinite money and construction but it doesn't look like the buildings will last that long.
I thought it was 99 years, with the old precedent where after 100 years the leasing party loses land rights (even though I don't know if anyone practices the 100 years limit anymore). Personally I would not be surprised if a solid % of the Chinese structures/infrastructure is destined to fail within 20 years of construction. The price of maintain/reconstruct it has to be atrocious.
It's serves the selfish, shortsighted interests of high ranking party officials & their partners in the construction industry to build poor quality buildings. Which can then be brought down after a short period of time.And the build cycle of putting up inferior apartment blocks for sale keeps on running almost perpetually.
You think You own the land You bought 😂😂😂😂 What Do You think is a property tax my dude? Property tax is rent money for owner ship for the land You bought,its not you're land or property, You rent it from the goverment by tax,dont pay you're property tax and see if its you're land.
After living 8 years in Germany i developed the most respect toward the German quality. My old house in koln was built 150 years ago but doesnt need any major reconstruction. All to the highest standard even todays and the walls are unbelievable thick. The quality of german house makes the houses in the USA look like Lego toys 😂
Italian buildings are overall 800-1500 years old. We stole so many technologies and architectural magic tricks from Romans... and call them "ours"... It is not even fair.
Some of this may be survivorship bias, we don't know how many of the buildings built 400 or 500 years ago didn't make it or had to get major repairs due to poor construction. Buildings being made now are much more visible and open to far greater public scrutiny than they were even 30 or 40 years ago (internet and smart phones). But on the plus side is does help us to see through the impressionism and facade of communist China.
Few yrs ago, an "engineer" from the east was telling me about how strong a bamboo vs steel rebar. I knew he was a load of sh.t but didn't know about China tofu-dreg vids. Wish i can send these vids to him now.
Bamboo is strong flexible and resist many things it's usage is different Bamboo or wood don't go with morden day cements I don't get structures bonds . But one use interlocking structure it will.but not stable for high rise building the structure can't resist they much pressure as of iron
Bamboo does work as a good one but only for small houses, it's suicide to use Bamboo though on high rises. A good example of wooden buildings is the Japanese traditional ones which revolves around cutting the edges as joints and joining them without any need of even nails or any other sort of bindings, it requires perfect woodworking though but the joints, if well created will last a long time even surviving the earthquakes, but for small buildings only
I used to work with drywall, made in america. It was so heavy it felt like 80 pound bags of cement, and hard as rock. We like to joke that houses in america are built out of fake rock, but high quality drywall is surprisingly tough and you'd have try to even break it. The fact that chinese "cement" breaks simply by scratching is alarming.
I'm a demolition engineer and any property where we come across concrete in such poor condition is wholly condemned and the area would be deemed unsafe. Indeed it should never have passed any form of inspection at point of build in the first place. So I guess China just churns out construction work with either zero or few checks and balances?
Every south east asia were like that now.. my family "contigency" house were built with a pathetic concrete bricks that easily crumble too in Borneo, Indonesia.. the quality kf pre-built home were mixed bag nowadays.. only the developer from java were honest and it's better to built your own thing...
Once that happens, the party will shut down the whole internet there to try to block news from coming out. Because yes, that will do untold levels of damage.
If I remember correctly in 2019/2020 Three Gorges Dam did nearly fail, the whole dam was starting to rotate forward on it's foundation and they had to do an emergency dump of water, flooding downstream farms and cities. The fact it's still standing is honestly surprising.
@@lineage254 its insane what also is funny is half of there military videos looks like something out of the 1950s Chinese guys doing kung fu and shooting shitty guns. most of it looks similar to north Korean military videos.
@@linuxlinux9914 Yup, mean while the usa has new tech that makes war like playing video games, and the new generation aircraft that looks like a bee in a radar.
A Chinese planner had stated that Chinese skyscrapers have a planned life of 50 years. My God, in US, at 50 years, a building is still considered new. In US, buildings will last forever if maintained.
This is right. A widespread belief in China of 1990s-2000 era was that anything being built was only going to need a 30 year lifespan anyway. They supposed, by 2025, China was going to be so wealthy that all these new highrises would be themselves taken down and replaced with very high quality super buildings of the future. *This belief seems reasonable if you consider that in the 1990s China construction boom - many of the old buildings they were knocking down to build on were 1960s era crappy old buildings. So, in that way, '30 years' to replace would make total sense to them. Here come the problem: In 2024 it turns out that China isn't 8X wealthier nor has it invented some space-age magic new way to replace those 1997 high rises or any of them. Oh and as planned and predicted, the concrete is crumbling, the foundations shifting, the elevators rusting, the siding detaching, the electricals smoldering AND there isn't enough money or expertise to maintain and refit those buildings either. derp!
maintained is the key word ... who should or wants to maintain gigantic concrete deserts for all eternity ... it's not just the skyscrapers... everything else, such as streets, is also part of it ... have fun ... 🙃🥂
@@NuclearSunshine Yep. The tofu dreg construction in China hits everything. Its so bad, the initial construction falls apart. It cannot be maintained, but needs to be totally rebuilt -- which won't happen.
Here in the uk a lot of cheap spending housing associations cladded all the high rise apartments with Chinese materials, then we had the grenfell tower tragedy where all the cladding on a build went ablaze after igniting from a kitchen fire.
And we're getting all the RAAC problems now, which sure we didn't buy that from China, but its still an example of how cutting corners and lack of maintenence is dangerous. RAAC has a lifespan of about 30 years. Many of the affected buildings are in their 50s or 60s. There was a high-rise at my uni that closed down last year due to structure problems, it was build in the 60s, and then just under a year after they closed that building and were arranging to get it demolished, the stuff about RAAC came out.
@@uss-dh7909Wasn't the actual Killdozer immobilized by falling debris? In China any prospective Killdozer wouldn't have to worry about that, as the buildings themselves crumble to dust on their own. Assuming of course there are any Chinese roads that can even support a heavy vehicle without failing catastrophically
No, they definitely do. The problem is that this has been going on for so long that the corruption has spread everywhere and become institutionised. If only one or a few were, things would not be so bad. As seen with our western countries. We do have some corrupt ones, definitely, but the majority keeping to the rules compensate and for the most part one corrupt element does create minor issues in most cases, and are usually caught if it´s to brazen and risky. Only sometimes the corrupt ones come together and align into a massive failure. But if basically every link along the chain is corrupt, in stards to compound and create exponential problems. If it was jsut the mortar for example, it would be not good but managable. But then the bricks are made from playdoh, the concrete is actually grey painted sand, the rebar in reality bamboo sticks, the glue actually from an arts store and so on. That`s the point when newly constructed buildings can be broken with your bare hands like you are Superman and looking at them to intensely will push them over.
We've already seen: they collapse, near instantly, killing hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions. And injuring many more. And then the government buildings stay standing too, just to rub salt into the wound.
i work at a dutch rebar factory and literally 90% of all the steel we use comes from China, Western homes and all other new buildings use Chinese steel, and our work overalls are also from China, I can literally prove it too if you guys want me to, Its not garbage at all, Infact i have seen German rebar break and bend more than Chinese Rebar, Its because of their hard work ethic, They work hard and they do it perfect everytime, Meanwhile western producers like Germans 100% slack off on the production of the steel which makes it weak.
@@valyshknee4203 I don’t doubt that China is capable of making quality steel as well as substandard steel. It’s likely corruption in China that accounts for the problems seen in this video.
@@2MeterLP Not completely true. Concrete whitout any fiber is very brittle. Same idea with clear cube of ice. Ad chips of wood,cloth,paper and it will hold stronger forces whitout shattering. Bamboo overally is tough stuff and not worst possible choice and it have applications in smaller scale. But yes definelty not something you completely replace your steel rebars in building. Overally not completely wacky idea but scale is just too big. And in those cases it was mostly just to cut corners.
@@Kesssuli so, just saw a vid from pittengineering, "Bamboo Reinforced Concrete". it compared 4 types of concrete beams of size 20cm x 15cm, 1 pure concrete, one steel reinforced, 2 with different types of bamboo reinforcement. one of the bamboo reinforcement styles held up with the steel reinforced one until a crack formed, and the other one was more... bendy to say without the strength. when the crack first formed, the steel reinforced beam continued strong needing more force to cause further deformation. while the bamboo reinforced lost a large amount of strength and force needed to cause full failure was less than the force needed to make the crack in the first place. TLDR; bamboo + concrete bad unless the concrete structure never cracks... and roads and things under heavy loads like cracking. so things like concrete fences could easily use bamboo in them to help them keep their shape... but not as load bearing structures.
I think it's comical that they showed what looked like a 30-50 story building on fire, engulfed in smoke and flames, but they claimed rhere were no casualties. Can anyone please explain that fiction?? Thank you!!
Well, the roads,bridges and buildings may be falling apart, but CHINA has NUCLEAR WEAPONS,BALLISTIC MISSILES ,6 th generation FIGHTERS ( plans stolen from us) a 10 million man army, and they’re building a massive new NAVY. And a large part of the money they’re spending is being provided to them by us,because we don’t make most of the products we use here anymore .
I thought we had cowboy builders in the UK, but these guys are true professionals. Instead of postering on the World stage isn't it about time he cleaned up his own backyard.
In the west, the fear of loosing one’s contractor and lawsuits license would be enough to ensure code compliance in the first place. But It seems that contractors and inspectors in China don’t have these threats.
Sadly that isn't true. People operate without licenses and if they are too dodgy / get sued they close shop , file for bankruptcy and then found another business a few years later. Its not the loss of a license that stops people here its that if you build something poorly enough that someone dies you actually go to jail for it. That is one thing that they teach you in tradeschools here, if you weld something and it is just straight porosity, you leave it , and then say a catwalk collapses you go to prison for involuntary manslaughter. The weld inspector that signs off, Jail, your foreman overseeing the work? Jail. Your employer? Well that all depends on how much they influence the stupidity on the floor but chances are huge fine and maybe jail.
My husband and I, our son and his wife all chipped in to buy our home. It's 90 years old, made of brick and has the old timber windows and framing. These old homes were made to last unlike the newer homes that are being built. Depending on the contractor, some newly built homes are subpar. Lesser grade construction materials, cutting corners, and so on. That's just my opinion. To each their own.
You need to vibrate concrete to knock up the air before it settles. From the footage you can see they are skipping that step. Low density concrete crumbles like cookies.
Um... yeah, that and the excessive sand, foam, bamboo, debris, etc... I think if they had vibrated what garbage they poured, it would have fallen apart then instead of later.
While it may seem dumb, bamboo is probably the most reasonable organic material to replace your rebar with. With the quality we've seen from Chinese rebar maybe it's actually stronger?
Much of this content has previously been presented but that doesn't change the fact that cutting corners on all types of construction projects is outrageous and down right immoral. How could anyone sleep at night knowing it's not if there will be a failure but when ? When you see floors, walls, and ceilings just crumble from scraping with hands it's horrendous and criminal.
When a community doesn’t believe in Hell and doesn’t even have proper definition of “humanity” due to communism, every crime will smell like a profit to them.
@@philipsmi-lenguyen8155 Yes they do. Stop being a piece of garbage. The populace is not the ruling elite. If they don't deserve better, neither do you. Stay in your lane.
In the UK they had a building with cladding that could go on fire, It shouldn't have been there but you know how it goes... So one day it caught fire and the apartment tower burned at the outside. They inspectors found the wrong, cheaper, material to have been used. Potentially bought from, where else, china.
Grenfell Tower is the name of the building. The cladding was from Arconix, an American manufacturer who knew the installation was dangerous but sold the product anyway. The insulation under the cladding was from Celotex, a French company. Greed is a global problem.
You mean the people who own the companies (and people) who built these buildings? Because I'm pretty sure the average Chinese construction worker wishes he could live in that crumbling apartment instead of some steel shack placed wherever his current place of work is.
Everything built in china is built by state owned companies controlled by the Chinese communist party. Overseas workers have zero to do with any construction in china.
@@systemicbreakdown7864 You’re right. I meant the owners of the companies and the general contractors who planned out these buildings. The average Chinese person doesn’t have a couple hundred grand lying around to get their families into America through the Mexican border.
Seriously. Once Communism killed faith they killed conscience and caring about your fellow man. Now it’s ‘every man for himself ‘ and this is the result.
The USA is riddled with Jesus - and shoddy construction still causes damage and death there. Not as much as in China - but that's not due to Jesus, that's due to US cultural beliefs.
Me seeing the concrete being poured in 11:10, that slump is way too high, they put too much water in it (probably because it took too long to get to the site so its past the 2hr mark) or its missing something necessary to make it work properly. Also, seeing how they're pouring into standing water, that will throw off the strength and obvious indicator that the ground isnt properly compacted (which is why there are sinkholes).
Thanks to Chinese for clearing my huge doubt of using bamboo instead of steel in construction moreover it possess 360 MPa of tensile strength like steel but it's not durable.
That is when compared with the same weight. The bamboo rebars are obviously lighter thus don't have the required tensile strength. Besides, as noted, they don't bind to the cement.
How on earth are these buildings standing. Who would even be in there to film those walls when the whole weight of the floors above are ready to go?? Crzy
Another fun thing they get to deal with is not having water either in the buildings or outside to fight fires, they have fire hoses in the buildings and hydrants outside but nothing is hooked up to them, they are dry the vast majority of the time. Terrible place everything is a facade.
far as i see it, we're starting to see this happen in the us as well.. i just saw a 4 story structure get built with cheap wood, with a brick facade around it. i saw no metal reinforcement in it at all, they just stacked some wood at twice the thickness and called it a day.. i even saw inspectors evaluating the building as it was being built.
No casualties reported ,doesn't mean there was no casualties. It just means no casualties was recorded.
Chances are someone died. The CCP just doesn't want to put salt in the wound by recording deaths.
Exactly my thought.
Thinking 🤔 the same thing
Either that or Chinese people are extremely lucky.
its china first response to emergency's is to denie it happened second is to arrest those ho called in the emergency because it makes china look bad
I am not an expert, but i feel like bricks and concrete should not burn
They shouldn't.bricks are used as insulators for high temperature furnaces.
That's why you're not an expert. All experts know that bricks made in China are flammable.
It's the cladding, which is often made out of flammable materials such as polystyrene/plastic. Flammable cladding is illegal in most countries, but every now and then it gets through such as in the Grenfell tower apartment building fire in the UK a few years back.
In that case it was produced in the US, and while ilegal for sale here, it is legal for export and at the time the UK had no laws against it's instalation.@@AwesomeFish12
Idk what's scarier.
The genius engineers are smart enough to built paper houses 50 floors tall or even these geniuses who built literally a nation are definitely still underpaid.
I used to think all the cheap products made in China were exported and kept the better products for local consumption but your videos show me they’re victims of their own junk as well.
The truth is worse than that. There are ~some~ quality inspections that happen before being shipped abroad when under a foreign name brand. Pop up Chinese brands don't have any inspections ( aka Temu ). Thus, Chinese eat the rankest, nastiest, and most disgusting of their own dog food (which is probably laced with melamine).
What they make is a reflection of a lack of standards and clear know how.
Honestly if anything it looks like it might be the opposite where they export the better products and keep the inferior ones for local consumption. Which is frightening in its own way.
In the US, government inspectors would reject shoddy or dangerous products and ofrce the sellers to refund the the customer. In China, the government are commercial partners of the construction company.
Junk is junk. Doesn't matter where it's from REFUSE JUNK buy better to save money over the longtime. Basics.
In Russia you have a higher chance of falling out of windows. In China, you have a higher chance of windows falling out. 😂
In USA you have a greater chance to "fall out" the house.
On China Observer, your greatest chance is of being lied to.
Bottom line is that commie countries are s*it
In russia you'd be so depressed you'd WANT to fall out of em, that I know
@@depressingNicolai-sv8ky In USA you'd be so depressed....
This is the kind of nonsense with which the "European Garden" tries to justify its horrific crimes.
@@hokroeger I sincerely understand
But hey in rural areas in conservative states it might be good no?
I HATE it when there is "excessive foam" in my concrete !!!
dude, thats funny . . .
You had concrete? My house made 100% foam
Aircrete .... mixuture of detegent foam and liquid concrete.
That's like excessive sawdust in Rice Crispy treats. Once it pushes past 35% you really start to taste the difference.
@@red-hat-mike I learned what Aircrete is today. Thanks.
If the Great Wall was built today, it wouldn’t last 20 years!
you could punch your way through it lol
It would be the Great Pile
20? Damn. You're being generous. How about half a year, at best?
They actually had to rebuild enormous segments of it because they destroyed it in the Great Leap Forward...most of it isn't original.
It would fall apart after the first freeze.
At this point, i don't even understand how buildings and house are still standing up.
Yes, it's amazing. They are just waiting to collapse if you ask me.
They won’t be for long. You just won’t hear about it.
Not all buildings are Tofu.
Same way a sand castle stands. Long enough to maybe take a few pictures, but worn away by the weather and time quite quickly afterward, and then it's just luck if it stays standing any longer.
@@daibo0ne for now....
I live in a house in London built by the Victorians in 1870. It is still solid and will be a safe home which my son and his family will continue to enjoy. In fact, the older the property the more it is valued in England. I feel lucky to own this house with all of its wonderful features.
Yes, I bought a brand new home, once. Just once.
My home in New Hampshire was built in 1846 from Hand hewed beams and held together with pegs and it's still standing strong today .
@@sirclarkmarz The Great wall still stands. So China can build stuff well, but massive corruption has killed all that ingenuity.
@@maskanipoa5348 The 'Chinese' as we now call them did NOT build the Great Wall. The Chinese Empire/Republic of China, the people who gave us the Great Wall, invented gunpowder, Ming vases, and all that, were attacked and defeated by Communists (backed by, of course, the Russians/Soviets) in the 1920s, and by the late 1940s the Communists had pushed the Chinese out of mainland China and into Taiwan, where they remain to this day. The Communists then decided THEY were the Chinese and claimed Chinese history as their own.
The real Chinese therefore, the ones who built the Great Wall, are actually who we now call the Taiwanese. And the real Chinese *can* build sturdy buildings and invent technology.....
My parents once had a pre war house near Newcastle on Tyne, north east England. I helped my dad do quite a bit of diy in that property and it was built like a bunker!!! I recall the bricks being so hard that even with a powerful hammer drill it took serious effort to drill holes in them!! The whole place was just so solid. The only poor part was that on the ground floor it was a wooden floor over earth. The structure of the floor was fine but it was draughty and cold. Even the interior doors were so solid that you would break your foot if you tried to kick them in!! Modern UK houses can be pretty rubbish in comparison, but nothing like the horror show seen here!!!
I bet that CCP members houses and buildings are not tofu-dreg as CCP members actually have their own food distribution centers and farms.
It's like when their city got flooded and their fix was to move all the water from their city to another.
they ride German cars, get Korean construction companies and eat imported food
Winnie the Pooh surely has a fine “cave” 😂
They have a highrest qualrity bamboo
Yes - much farming in China is on toxic land and fish are fed chemicles to fatten them up and grapes are sprayed to make them swell up. Visitors are advised to buy imported bottled soft drinks as the local ones are often just raw dirty water full of impurities and parasites. So the leadership get their own food grown on secure farms.
Don't expect anyone to be building anything to last when you don't own the land you're building it on. Remember you can't buy land in China, you can lease it from the government for 70 years after which it returns to it's rightful owner, the party. I'm sure they expected a 70 year loop of infinite money and construction but it doesn't look like the buildings will last that long.
I thought it was 99 years, with the old precedent where after 100 years the leasing party loses land rights (even though I don't know if anyone practices the 100 years limit anymore). Personally I would not be surprised if a solid % of the Chinese structures/infrastructure is destined to fail within 20 years of construction. The price of maintain/reconstruct it has to be atrocious.
It's serves the selfish, shortsighted interests of high ranking party officials & their partners in the construction industry to build poor quality buildings.
Which can then be brought down after a short period of time.And the build cycle of putting up inferior apartment blocks for sale keeps on running almost perpetually.
You think You own the land You bought 😂😂😂😂
What Do You think is a property tax my dude?
Property tax is rent money for owner ship for the land You bought,its not you're land or property, You rent it from the goverment by tax,dont pay you're property tax and see if its you're land.
@@ShabanAjeti I don't own jack squat, I could pack my life into a single backpack and fck off into the sunset.
Yes very good point ☝️
In my town in Germany, there are buildings that are more than 500 years old. Still standing solid for the next 500 years!
After living 8 years in Germany i developed the most respect toward the German quality. My old house in koln was built 150 years ago but doesnt need any major reconstruction. All to the highest standard even todays and the walls are unbelievable thick. The quality of german house makes the houses in the USA look like Lego toys 😂
Italian buildings are overall 800-1500 years old. We stole so many technologies and architectural magic tricks from Romans... and call them "ours"... It is not even fair.
@@fabricliverIndeed, my house (infatti un borghetto intero) was built around 1150, so is nearly 1000 years old!
Not if your imported Africans have any say with that.
Some of this may be survivorship bias, we don't know how many of the buildings built 400 or 500 years ago didn't make it or had to get major repairs due to poor construction. Buildings being made now are much more visible and open to far greater public scrutiny than they were even 30 or 40 years ago (internet and smart phones). But on the plus side is does help us to see through the impressionism and facade of communist China.
"Cutting corners " ?
"Cutting fucking corners" ??
That's more like cutting the whole square into a triangle and then just throwing the triangle away
Nah they're not cutting corners... They are cutting the inside of the square and leaving just the outside
Only in China can concrete burn & be called "insulation materials"🤣
its almost the equivalent of having water catch on fire.
Concrtete is not called "insulation materials" anywhere by anybody.
In America, we'd call that an accelerant, but you do you, China.
Aircrete, a form of concrete that is airated, can be used for insulation.
Thing it, it is used for homes, not giant skyscrapers.
Few yrs ago, an "engineer" from the east was telling me about how strong a bamboo vs steel rebar. I knew he was a load of sh.t but didn't know about China tofu-dreg vids. Wish i can send these vids to him now.
Bamboo is strong flexible and resist many things it's usage is different
Bamboo or wood don't go with morden day cements I don't get structures bonds .
But one use interlocking structure it will.but not stable for high rise building the structure can't resist they much pressure as of iron
Bamboo's a good building material but it isn't good for large structures.
Bamboo does work as a good one but only for small houses, it's suicide to use Bamboo though on high rises.
A good example of wooden buildings is the Japanese traditional ones which revolves around cutting the edges as joints and joining them without any need of even nails or any other sort of bindings, it requires perfect woodworking though but the joints, if well created will last a long time even surviving the earthquakes, but for small buildings only
@@xsupremeyx9923 you can do that with a lot of wood, theres a bunch of churches in norway built like that
Note to self: Never hire a Chinese company to build ANYTHING.
It's more the materials, not the assembly
@@carlmorgan8452 It is both. They are cheap materials due to corruption.
Except most our appliances come from there and a sbhit
not anymore mexico overtook china as the usa's largest import and most manufacturing is moving to Vietnam/SEA@@lisalynch629
Singapore's buildings and structures, especially public housing and transport, are being built by Chinese companies in the past 10-15 years.
I used to work with drywall, made in america. It was so heavy it felt like 80 pound bags of cement, and hard as rock. We like to joke that houses in america are built out of fake rock, but high quality drywall is surprisingly tough and you'd have try to even break it. The fact that chinese "cement" breaks simply by scratching is alarming.
@@nesnahprotsdam I'm going to call bullshit on this one.
@@bigdog8008 go ahead, I can only tell from my own experience. Make of it what you want.
@@bigdog8008singlewide trailer...whipple wind sh1thouse on blocks
@@harryballsacky
Wow, you write with such grace and finesse! Are you out of 2nd grade yet?
@@bigdog8008 me and gary newman are both 2nd grade graduates..4 of the tuffest years of my life
Unbelievable. Except it is in China. Making it very believable.
I'm a demolition engineer and any property where we come across concrete in such poor condition is wholly condemned and the area would be deemed unsafe. Indeed it should never have passed any form of inspection at point of build in the first place. So I guess China just churns out construction work with either zero or few checks and balances?
No leadership, patience , or tolerance for late projects.
Considering that if allowed they can do one floor per day for a high-rise? No checks whatsoever
No check but check to avoid check!
Every south east asia were like that now.. my family "contigency" house were built with a pathetic concrete bricks that easily crumble too in Borneo, Indonesia.. the quality kf pre-built home were mixed bag nowadays.. only the developer from java were honest and it's better to built your own thing...
@@MaseraSteve So its a pretty big issue then? I'm in UK, the rain alone would literally wash many of these constructs away lol.
Try not to think about the fact this 'concrete' and 'steel' has been found in Three Gorges Dam... and what will happen WHEN that fails
Once that happens, the party will shut down the whole internet there to try to block news from coming out.
Because yes, that will do untold levels of damage.
Whether in one blow or one school or apartment block at a time... the numbers are staggering either way.
The basin of water that's held bad is so great that it's apparently affected the earths rotation by a few microseconds.
If I remember correctly in 2019/2020 Three Gorges Dam did nearly fail, the whole dam was starting to rotate forward on it's foundation and they had to do an emergency dump of water, flooding downstream farms and cities.
The fact it's still standing is honestly surprising.
So they are starting to build airliners now 😂😂😂😂
Terrifying. But who needs aviation-grade aluminium when you can use bamboo and leftover wrought iron?
@@Dr.W.Krueger 😆😆😆
🤣@@Dr.W.Krueger
Boeing isn’t Chinese right?
They learn everything from Boeing...
And they are brave enough to constantly threaten america in chinese, this is hilarious
if you dont see the connection between poor quality housing for billions and war armaments + technology you're just dumb
Paper tiger, the chinese love "face" so much they even lied to themselves.
@@lineage254 its insane what also is funny is half of there military videos looks like something out of the 1950s Chinese guys doing kung fu and shooting shitty guns. most of it looks similar to north Korean military videos.
@@linuxlinux9914 Yup, mean while the usa has new tech that makes war like playing video games, and the new generation aircraft that looks like a bee in a radar.
china forgets very easily
A Chinese planner had stated that Chinese skyscrapers have a planned life of 50 years.
My God, in US, at 50 years, a building is still considered new.
In US, buildings will last forever if maintained.
My house here in New mexico is 40yrs old and is in better shape than newly built homes. Quality here has gone down while costs have gone up
This is right. A widespread belief in China of 1990s-2000 era was that anything being built was only going to need a 30 year lifespan anyway. They supposed, by 2025, China was going to be so wealthy that all these new highrises would be themselves taken down and replaced with very high quality super buildings of the future.
*This belief seems reasonable if you consider that in the 1990s China construction boom - many of the old buildings they were knocking down to build on were 1960s era crappy old buildings. So, in that way, '30 years' to replace would make total sense to them.
Here come the problem: In 2024 it turns out that China isn't 8X wealthier nor has it invented some space-age magic new way to replace those 1997 high rises or any of them.
Oh and as planned and predicted, the concrete is crumbling, the foundations shifting, the elevators rusting, the siding detaching, the electricals smoldering AND there isn't enough money or expertise to maintain and refit those buildings either.
derp!
It usually requires a big renovation of a skyscraper after 80 years or so to replace old steel with new. Old is recycled.
maintained is the key word ... who should or wants to maintain gigantic concrete deserts for all eternity ... it's not just the skyscrapers... everything else, such as streets, is also part of it ... have fun ... 🙃🥂
@@NuclearSunshine Yep. The tofu dreg construction in China hits everything.
Its so bad, the initial construction falls apart. It cannot be maintained, but needs to be totally rebuilt -- which won't happen.
And the ppl spend their family's life savings and borrow from banks to buy these shoddy and tofu buildings. This is too shameful.
It’s okay. The people who made all the money have fled to London.
Here in the uk a lot of cheap spending housing associations cladded all the high rise apartments with Chinese materials, then we had the grenfell tower tragedy where all the cladding on a build went ablaze after igniting from a kitchen fire.
And we're getting all the RAAC problems now, which sure we didn't buy that from China, but its still an example of how cutting corners and lack of maintenence is dangerous. RAAC has a lifespan of about 30 years. Many of the affected buildings are in their 50s or 60s. There was a high-rise at my uni that closed down last year due to structure problems, it was build in the 60s, and then just under a year after they closed that building and were arranging to get it demolished, the stuff about RAAC came out.
@@bethanybrookes8479 shocking isnt it
Not actually correct.
I see it was worth the £50m investigation.
The brick manufacturer obviously hasnt heard of killdozer. Take everything from a man and he has nothing let to lose.
Love that film. That D9'er would level an average newly built Chinese city in an afternoon.
@@Darth_Chicken How would he level a newly build chinese city when he falls into a sinkhole that formed under the road leading in?
@@uss-dh7909ohh well I guess a carbon fiber killdozer is in order
@@uss-dh7909Wasn't the actual Killdozer immobilized by falling debris? In China any prospective Killdozer wouldn't have to worry about that, as the buildings themselves crumble to dust on their own. Assuming of course there are any Chinese roads that can even support a heavy vehicle without failing catastrophically
What would we expect from a government without accountability?😮
Never buy a Chinese electric vehicles!
Never buy anything made in China (at least try not to)
Never buy anything chinee. Lol.
Never buy an electric vehicle.
Don't buy their computers either. ruclips.net/video/Pi0_wzdz7aY/видео.html
Never buy anything from China if you can get it from elsewhere.
It strikes me that this has been going on so long, no one knows anymore how to build a safe, quality building any more.
No, they definitely do. The problem is that this has been going on for so long that the corruption has spread everywhere and become institutionised. If only one or a few were, things would not be so bad. As seen with our western countries. We do have some corrupt ones, definitely, but the majority keeping to the rules compensate and for the most part one corrupt element does create minor issues in most cases, and are usually caught if it´s to brazen and risky. Only sometimes the corrupt ones come together and align into a massive failure. But if basically every link along the chain is corrupt, in stards to compound and create exponential problems. If it was jsut the mortar for example, it would be not good but managable. But then the bricks are made from playdoh, the concrete is actually grey painted sand, the rebar in reality bamboo sticks, the glue actually from an arts store and so on. That`s the point when newly constructed buildings can be broken with your bare hands like you are Superman and looking at them to intensely will push them over.
Oh no, the knowledge is there. Government contracts aren't willing to pay for it.
@@nisonaticThat’s Chinese contractors for you.
Can you imagine a 7 or an 8 point magnitude earthquake I would want to be in any high rise building
Even a 5 point
RT
I wouldn't want to be below them either.
by the end of it all these buildings would probably be dust in the wind and piles of rotted bamboo rebar.
It would collapse like a sand castle
The fact that they already cut corners to absolute maximum yet they are having real estate crisis is just too funny to me.
The housing crisis exists because any housing they build - falls down. So.. still a crisis!
No casualties? I doubt that.
No casualties "recorded"
I hate to think what will happen to such structures in the event of an earthquake or typhoon.
We've already seen: they collapse, near instantly, killing hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions. And injuring many more. And then the government buildings stay standing too, just to rub salt into the wound.
The CCP will make sure you never hear about the true impact of those events.
MILLIONS, HUH....THE SKY IS FALLING...@@bethanybrookes8479
i work at a dutch rebar factory and literally 90% of all the steel we use comes from China, Western homes and all other new buildings use Chinese steel, and our work overalls are also from China, I can literally prove it too if you guys want me to, Its not garbage at all, Infact i have seen German rebar break and bend more than Chinese Rebar, Its because of their hard work ethic, They work hard and they do it perfect everytime, Meanwhile western producers like Germans 100% slack off on the production of the steel which makes it weak.
@@valyshknee4203 I don’t doubt that China is capable of making quality steel as well as substandard steel. It’s likely corruption in China that accounts for the problems seen in this video.
Only positive thing about this……..job security for fire and EMTs.
They live in the same flammable houses.
Their safety and rescue equipments might all as well as shitty as the buildings are. One time they even faked a hydrant.
Bamboo rebar at 7:31. Love it!
Might as well just not add any rebar at all! In fact that would probably be stronger!
imagine in the future trying to explain why you have termites nesting inside the concrete.
TACO ENGINEERING
@@2MeterLP Not completely true.
Concrete whitout any fiber is very brittle.
Same idea with clear cube of ice. Ad chips of wood,cloth,paper and it will hold stronger forces whitout shattering.
Bamboo overally is tough stuff and not worst possible choice and it have applications in smaller scale.
But yes definelty not something you completely replace your steel rebars in building.
Overally not completely wacky idea but scale is just too big. And in those cases
it was mostly just to cut corners.
@@Kesssuli so, just saw a vid from pittengineering, "Bamboo Reinforced Concrete". it compared 4 types of concrete beams of size 20cm x 15cm, 1 pure concrete, one steel reinforced, 2 with different types of bamboo reinforcement.
one of the bamboo reinforcement styles held up with the steel reinforced one until a crack formed, and the other one was more... bendy to say without the strength. when the crack first formed, the steel reinforced beam continued strong needing more force to cause further deformation. while the bamboo reinforced lost a large amount of strength and force needed to cause full failure was less than the force needed to make the crack in the first place.
TLDR; bamboo + concrete bad unless the concrete structure never cracks... and roads and things under heavy loads like cracking.
so things like concrete fences could easily use bamboo in them to help them keep their shape... but not as load bearing structures.
Made in China stand by its name. Be careful what you made.
And the builder has not been charged. I suspect the builders belongs to the high ranking officials that can get away with anything.
God those concrete looks like a very dry Popeye biscuits
I want to make a joke about that slight agenst popeyes but you are pretty much on the money expecially when they get that dry.
DRYER THAN A FART IN CHURCH
Popeyes biscuits are probably stronger.
Too much Bisquick, not enough butter makes for low quality concrete.
@@armageddonready4071from personal expirence being in the south they are way stronger plus even when they get really stale they just become rocks.
In China, casualties are not something they care about, the only thing that matters is minimizing production costs to maximize profit.
Better than any msm journalism these days
I think it's comical that they showed what looked like a 30-50 story building on fire, engulfed in smoke and flames, but they claimed rhere were no casualties. Can anyone please explain that fiction?? Thank you!!
CCP owned media. Nuff said. 😒
They just didn't record them, doesn't mean there weren't any.
Coz prolly not much people lived in there in the first place.
They only count bodies they find.
@@karenneill9109 and sometimes don't look...
"Made in China"
Potholes in South Africa is a pain, but even here we don't have holes swallowing entire cars.
I would like to see the Slump test on that concrete.
You’d cry. I know I would.
if i had to guess removing most of the issues from diffrent mix types. I bet most would fall into the collapse type
I pray for the citizens of China that they don't have a earthquake.
I was seriously getting a sick feeling in my stomach when I saw that man pulling chunks out of that wall while installing the windows.
Well, the roads,bridges and buildings may be falling apart, but CHINA has NUCLEAR WEAPONS,BALLISTIC MISSILES ,6 th generation FIGHTERS ( plans stolen from us) a 10 million man army, and they’re building a massive new NAVY. And a large part of the money they’re spending is being provided to them by us,because we don’t make most of the products we use here anymore .
I thought we had cowboy builders in the UK, but these guys are true professionals. Instead of postering on the World stage isn't it about time he cleaned up his own backyard.
What!? Take responsibility!? ARE YOU MAD MAN???
You know it's a big problem when the state media acknowledges it fully
In the west, the fear of loosing one’s contractor and lawsuits license would be enough to ensure code compliance in the first place. But It seems that contractors and inspectors in China don’t have these threats.
Just bribe the inspectors and viola instant project!
Sadly that isn't true. People operate without licenses and if they are too dodgy / get sued they close shop , file for bankruptcy and then found another business a few years later. Its not the loss of a license that stops people here its that if you build something poorly enough that someone dies you actually go to jail for it. That is one thing that they teach you in tradeschools here, if you weld something and it is just straight porosity, you leave it , and then say a catwalk collapses you go to prison for involuntary manslaughter. The weld inspector that signs off, Jail, your foreman overseeing the work? Jail. Your employer? Well that all depends on how much they influence the stupidity on the floor but chances are huge fine and maybe jail.
no casualty that ccp will report ..
So you're meaning to tell me I could level a tofu drag building using a M72a6 66mm rocket instead of just a room? 😂😂
No need to use ammo when time will work just as effectively.
I think a strongly worded letter would topple many of them
Just use fire crackers save the rockets😂
My husband and I, our son and his wife all chipped in to buy our home.
It's 90 years old, made of brick and has the old timber windows and framing.
These old homes were made to last unlike the newer homes that are being built.
Depending on the contractor, some newly built homes are subpar. Lesser grade construction materials,
cutting corners, and so on.
That's just my opinion. To each their own.
dont worry, the rainy season starts in 2 months...
Building swallowed into ground due to foundation make of wood than iron blocks
A wood instead of Steel.
Biodegradable buildings. Who said China isn't environmentally conscious lol
So basically: Be careful where you drive, what you eat, where you live, who you work for and don’t be above 35 or you can’t work in China!
that what corruption does for you
One of several reasons I will never visit China again
Now it all makes sense why the Chicoms are banning fireworks in Redchina.
THAT mentality cannot compete with the Western way.
Life is cheap in China.
You need to vibrate concrete to knock up the air before it settles. From the footage you can see they are skipping that step. Low density concrete crumbles like cookies.
Yeah I noticed that. Air bubbles all over will weaken that concrete.
Um... yeah, that and the excessive sand, foam, bamboo, debris, etc... I think if they had vibrated what garbage they poured, it would have fallen apart then instead of later.
so people punching through brick walls in a kung fu battle is based on real life, huh.
I've heard of mud houses more stearn than those walls.
Not only should the developer be jailed, so should the contractors involved.
They wont mind, they built the jails too probably. Just pick away at the wall for a few hours and you're good to go
Umm, the officials and inspectors too.
Checking the label of the buildings to see if it says, "Made in China"
While it may seem dumb, bamboo is probably the most reasonable organic material to replace your rebar with. With the quality we've seen from Chinese rebar maybe it's actually stronger?
Construction standards, something China doesn't have 😬
Much of this content has previously been presented but that doesn't change the fact that cutting corners on all types of construction projects is outrageous and down right immoral. How could anyone sleep at night knowing it's not if there will be a failure but when ? When you see floors, walls, and ceilings just crumble from scraping with hands it's horrendous and criminal.
When a community doesn’t believe in Hell and doesn’t even have proper definition of “humanity” due to communism, every crime will smell like a profit to them.
Not all cultures are equal
You wouldn't even catch me in that building It's a death trap
What goes around, comes around. The same people who are victims would also perpetrate this if given a bribe or financial incentive to cut corners.
Oh wow, so on typhoon season, well get to see Domino's on a grand scale
"If you can cheat, CHEAT" Modern Chines proverb
I wonder if there is PROFESSIONALISM in Chinese language??
China is a paper dragon. Literally.
What a society they have built over there. The people deserve better.
No they don't. Lol.
They deserve better than the society they built? I...uh...wut?!
@@philipsmi-lenguyen8155 Yes they do. Stop being a piece of garbage. The populace is not the ruling elite.
If they don't deserve better, neither do you. Stay in your lane.
Look at those fires, cheaply built buildings that burned and didn't collapse in their own footprint. Never forget.
These substandard buildings would be no match for Godzirra.
In the UK they had a building with cladding that could go on fire, It shouldn't have been there but you know how it goes...
So one day it caught fire and the apartment tower burned at the outside.
They inspectors found the wrong, cheaper, material to have been used. Potentially bought from, where else, china.
Grenfell Tower is the name of the building. The cladding was from Arconix, an American manufacturer who knew the installation was dangerous but sold the product anyway. The insulation under the cladding was from Celotex, a French company.
Greed is a global problem.
The funny part is the people who built these buildings are all living nice and comfortably in the United States. 😂
You mean the people who own the companies (and people) who built these buildings? Because I'm pretty sure the average Chinese construction worker wishes he could live in that crumbling apartment instead of some steel shack placed wherever his current place of work is.
Everything built in china is built by state owned companies controlled by the Chinese communist party. Overseas workers have zero to do with any construction in china.
@@systemicbreakdown7864 You’re right. I meant the owners of the companies and the general contractors who planned out these buildings. The average Chinese person doesn’t have a couple hundred grand lying around to get their families into America through the Mexican border.
And London!
Rich Chinese love it here
Chinese companies cutting corners and not following regulations? Yes.
Did you know that every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Africa?
No casualties!?
no *reported* casualties. aka someone looked the other way
"Made in China"... a display of crap quality even IN China. :(
China needs Jesus
Seriously. Once Communism killed faith they killed conscience and caring about your fellow man. Now it’s ‘every man for himself ‘ and this is the result.
The USA is riddled with Jesus - and shoddy construction still causes damage and death there. Not as much as in China - but that's not due to Jesus, that's due to US cultural beliefs.
No they don't. They need better morals. Lol.
@Rtu776 Vietnam seem to be doin alright with Communism. Lol.
MEXICO IS THE NEW CHINA
“Wouldn’t with stand a minor earthquake”. It literally can’t handle a light touch. An earthquake is the least of their problems.
Gives reinforced meaning to the, “Made In China” reputation. Someone made money at the cost of someone being scammed.
They’re probably using EPS insulation boards, and not flame retardant stone wool or glass wool insulation. These high rise buildings are death traps.
Towering inferno "no casualties" - Press X to doubt....
So this is why china’s movies depict people easily punching through walls and such. Because anyone can.
if walls in USA are made from cardboards, then walls in China are made from papers.
Me seeing the concrete being poured in 11:10, that slump is way too high, they put too much water in it (probably because it took too long to get to the site so its past the 2hr mark) or its missing something necessary to make it work properly. Also, seeing how they're pouring into standing water, that will throw off the strength and obvious indicator that the ground isnt properly compacted (which is why there are sinkholes).
why the propaganda. the cieling is a composite, you can calculate the offset between the original video and the layer above. this is dirty my guy
When Mr Zhang tap the ceiling, the debits that falls out, looks like the ceiling is taking a shit. 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks to Chinese for clearing my huge doubt of using bamboo instead of steel in construction moreover it possess 360 MPa of tensile strength like steel but it's not durable.
That is when compared with the same weight. The bamboo rebars are obviously lighter thus don't have the required tensile strength. Besides, as noted, they don't bind to the cement.
CCP: *"NO FIREWORKS ALLOWED! IN NEW YEAR!!!"*
CCP: (also allows fireworks on lunar new year)
Most societies learn how important quality is for future stability, but China has advanced so quickly that they never had the chance.
And now they want to build comercial airliners to sell in Europe, vey scary.
The diversity crew will fly them too 😅
How on earth are these buildings standing. Who would even be in there to film those walls when the whole weight of the floors above are ready to go?? Crzy
It's scary just how screwed such a large infrastructure can get.
Another fun thing they get to deal with is not having water either in the buildings or outside to fight fires, they have fire hoses in the buildings and hydrants outside but nothing is hooked up to them, they are dry the vast majority of the time. Terrible place everything is a facade.
far as i see it, we're starting to see this happen in the us as well.. i just saw a 4 story structure get built with cheap wood, with a brick facade around it. i saw no metal reinforcement in it at all, they just stacked some wood at twice the thickness and called it a day.. i even saw inspectors evaluating the building as it was being built.
Imagine realizing that you're living in an actual gingerbread house.