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Manila airport terminal, built by Japanese company, found to be structurally flawed

Business Oct. 08, 2011 - 04:46AM JST ( 9 )

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some14someOct. 08, 2011 - 07:54AM JST

Is Architecture Mr. Aneha still in business? Perhaps not, but there are many Aneha like people in Japan's construction companies.
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ExportExpertOct. 08, 2011 - 10:09AM JST

Making buildings out of cornflakes and cardboard was popular in Japan once, i see this method was used in this project too. So many buildings were found to be unsafe in Japan recently because of cheap cheating building methods, I see lots of buildings have been demolished because they were unsafe, Aneha was not the only one making flimsy structures , it was wide spread.
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gyouzaOct. 08, 2011 - 01:22PM JST

So many buildings were found to be unsafe in Japan recently

Interested in this. Which ones?
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ExportExpertOct. 08, 2011 - 01:47PM JST

I know of atleast 4 in Machida alone that were demolished because they were found to have been built using inferior methods, the building where the machida Hub is was knocked over and rebuilt about 2 years ago because it was found to be unsafe. There are lots of them all over Tokyo.
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WilliBOct. 09, 2011 - 01:01AM JST

ExportExport:

" There are lots of them all over Tokyo. "

Fact is, modern buildings in Sendai survived the 3/11 quake just fine, and also in Tokyo where it reached 5.5, there no buidling damages. The facts do not match your claim. If there were as many shoddy buildings as you claim, we would have noticed that.
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zichiOct. 09, 2011 - 01:14AM JST

Generally, I'm impressed with building and construction here.

There was a case back in 2006 when an architect was arrested, Hidetsugu Aneha, who allegedly designed more than 200 buildings using faked quake data. Also several construction industry were also arrested.

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=326729
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JeffLeeOct. 09, 2011 - 07:05AM JST

構造計算書偽造問題 - architectural forgery. It's so widespread in Japan, it's got its own word.

Japan's public buildings have improved but they still aren't up to international standards. I always shake my head at the Hamatsucho Monorail station connecting Haneda aiport. It's up 3 floors but has one tiny and slow elevator hidden aruond a corner. Go there at any given time, and you seen crowds of people - the elderly, girls -- hauling all their luggage up 3 flights of concrete stairs. Only in Japan.
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The Munya TimesOct. 09, 2011 - 11:36AM JST

It's O.K. to entrust a Japanese or any other foreign companies to build an airport but before beginning the actual construction work, it's the principal contractor's duty and responsibility to carefully revise the blueprints or if they shouldn't have the necessary technical or intellectual reserve, then to charge a neutral third party with the task.

Otherwise, I don't think it really makes sense to commission the Japanese with construction work. They are fast, very well organized but don't do quality work.
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The Munya TimesOct. 09, 2011 - 12:01PM JST

WilliBOct. 09, 2011 - 01:01AM JST

If there were as many shoddy buildings as you claim, we would have noticed that.

Yes , there are many but they were mechanically strengthened with specific cross-supporters in the recent years following a government guideline. Cheating design and and building methods were never acknowledged as it could have led to mass arrests in the construction industry and the gov. guideline came as a revision for construction standard.

I myself saw too many buildings in Tokyo where these strong diagonal, cross-supporters were built in in the recent years.