Shanghai Tower 1

[BAretired]

This is an interesting and spectacular video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub9VaFWGAyM

BA

 

[TehMightyEngineer]

Thanks! I love finding engineering related shows running around YouTube. Here's some random stuff I've been watching lately. Morbidly fascinating and lots of great information if you work in industrial sites like I often do.

Maine EIT, Civil/Structural.

 

[SteelPE]

All I get is that the video was removed by the user.

 

[TehMightyEngineer]

Yeah, I also get that now. Oh well.

Maine EIT, Civil/Structural.

 

[BAretired]

Me too. Sorry about that.

BA

 

[BAretired]

Google came to the rescue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCbLNu6hzxI&feature=player_detailpage

BA

 

[spats]

I watched the whole thing just before they took it down. It was so fascinating that I couldn't stop watching. Unfortunately, the new link that BA posted is only a 4minute:40 second version. The one I watched was over 54 minutes long.

 

[BAretired]

Yes spats, the new link, although fairly interesting, is not nearly as good from an engineering perspective as the first link was. Too bad it was removed.

BA

 

[BUGGAR]

I watched the full version.

I wanted to throw some of those "bosses" over the edge!

 

[spats]

If the guys responsible for completing the work prior to the topping out ceremony had not finished in time, it seems like they probably would have been thrown over the edge... or they might have jumped themselves! I didn't realize that the Chinese are like the Japanese when it comes to honor/dishonor.

 

[BAretired]

Found another video on the tower. I think this is the same as the first link I gave, but I haven't watched this one to the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKIWAv4CLtw

BA

 

[TehMightyEngineer]

That's the same one as the original.

Maine EIT, Civil/Structural.

 

[FootNMouth]

Best quote, "The structural engineer always has a solution"

 

[jayrod12]

But first he must ask "How much money do you have?"