The above video is filmed by an amateur cameraman in Galati, Romania.
On a construction site, deep excavations with no support measures to stabilize the soil led to the collapse of neighbour building.
The Romanian Building Code has a set of rules to support the edges of deep excavations in urban areas with slurry walls or pilled walls made under protection of bentonite.
The next pictures are from a construction site in Bucharest, Romania, showing excavations of more than 40 x 70 meters (130 x 230 feet) perimeter and 12 meters deep (40 feet). The edges of the excavations are reinforced with both slurry walls and pilled walls going till 18 meters deep (60 feet).
The excavation will cover three underground parking levels. The above building is 7 to 11 stories with both offices and apartments. The building is designed to resist to important earthquakes. Romanian Earthquakes have a period of about 30 to 40 years and might often be more dangerous than 7.2-7.4 on Richter scale.
Our architectural & engineering firm designed the architecture, engineering and deep foundations for this building.
Maybe allover the place our clients have a hard time to understand the importance of a quality architectural and engineering design. The video featured here is one of the best examples of what irresponsibility can mean for a future building.
Luckily, the incident taped here led to no human looses or injuries. But, on the other hand, the building collapsed just because of lot of mistakes, and no earthquake or other calamity provoked it.
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