Engineering News by You :: Chinese construction under scrutiny after quake

Login to EngCom

News Categories

Engineering Drawingboard [Home]Business and Financial Chemical & Process Civil and Structural CMMS Design and CAD Did You Know Electrical & Process Control Environmental and Life Cycle Health & Safety Manufacturing/Production Mechanical Mining, Oil & Gas Military and Defence Process Improvement Transport Warehousing & Distribution Ryan's Ramblings

Syndicate

Save This Page

Interesting engineering news and general interest to get you through the week.

Chinese construction under scrutiny after quake

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu

Wrenching scenes of survivors being dug out of collapsed schools and apartments after this week's earthquake in central China suggest widespread disregard for building codes in the rapidly urbanizing region, observers said Wednesday.

"There are lessons to be learned from this, and I think the main lesson is that codes need to be followed," said Reginald DesRoches, a civil engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Although widespread damage from Monday's magnitude-7.9 earthquake was "not terribly surprising," cities like Beijing and Shanghai -- where construction is more closely regulated -- would likely have fared better than the cities of Sichuan province, where the quake's epicenter was, DesRoches said.

Start a conversation

Add New

RSS

Friday 16 May, 2008 02:36 PM

< Prev		Next >

[ Back ]

Midweek Trivia

Get this weeks Midweek Trivia!!

(1^st October)

and challenge your workmates.

Find out who knows the most useless trivia.

Others in this Category

Nakheel says current work on Waterfront project on schedule Jefferson students design wooden bridges Federal investigators say design error, too much weight doomed I-35W bridge Don’t lose the vision Wow Factor

Your Ad Here

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible" - Freeman Dyson