Workers scramble away from collapsing structure - GIF

Workers scramble away from collapsing structure.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...090#post203290
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...058#post203172
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...523#post201027
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...277#post196166
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...447#post196870

anyone know where/ when this is - cause?

Were they putting it up or taking it down?

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Originally Posted by desbromilow

anyone know where/ when this is - cause?

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I doubt if it is the same building, but I remember the collapse of a very similar looking building being erected near Amghara Kuwait one day it was there being built and the next it was flat on the ground, the 2 workers in the foreground looked very much like workers you would find there as well.
A lot can go wrong during the critical stages of construction on a building like that one. It looked like they had plenty of wind bracing cables holding the columns straight and square but I couldn't see any up top perhaps there were some at the far end but not enough for such a wide clear span

The workers had early warning that the crane was going to collapse. There also was a strange wrinkle in the first truss?

Ralph

Better it collapsed then, than later with it full of people or property...