Today (May 20) noon, Shenzhen Futian District, Huaqiang North landmark building – Saige Building shaking again, the building management office has informed the high-rise tenants down to evacuate. So far, the building has been shaking for three days in a row.
Mainland cover news report quoted a number of Shenzhen Saige Building merchants said, at about 12:30 today in the 35th floor, 55th floor, 60th floor and many other floors felt the shaking. According to the video provided by the merchants, the water in the fish tank, floor fans have obvious shaking.
According to the report, at about 13:00 on the 20th, Sage Plaza duty officer said, has arranged for staff to notify high-level merchants downstairs.
The Sage Building has been shaking for three days in a row. 12:31 p.m. to 1 p.m. on May 18, the Sage Plaza building shaking phenomenon, a large number of people in the building quickly run away from the building. Some sources said that at least ten thousand people fled the building.
On May 19, around 2 p.m., two businessmen on the 6th floor and one on the 5th floor of the Sage Plaza said respectively that the building had shaken between 1:30 and 2 p.m. At that time, there were still many merchants in the building who were busy shipping goods, causing concern.
At about 5 p.m. on the 19th, a Ms. Xu, who works on the 57th floor of Sage Tower, told Continental Extreme News that she felt the shaking as early as May 13.
“My colleagues they said they felt dizzy, I also felt a little dizzy.” Ms. Xu described how she and her colleagues clearly felt the building shaking in their office on the 57th floor.
She said that in addition to May 13, the building had also shaken in the following days, and each time the shaking occurred, she and her colleagues would feel dizzy and uncomfortable.
“Each time the shaking was about 10 seconds or so.” Ms. Xu said her colleagues have been here for three years, before even blowing typhoons did not feel the building shaking.
Shenzhen officials informed the evening of May 19 that from 21:00 on May 18 to 15:00 on May 19, a number of professional organizations to monitor the vibration, tilt, settlement and other conditions of the Sage Building in real time, the three indicators are far less than the normative allowable value, monitoring data does not show abnormal conditions. At present, the main structure of the building and the surrounding environment are not found to be involved in safety abnormalities, and the main structure of the building is safe. The specific causes of vibration are being further verified.
According to the public information, the shaking phenomenon of Saige Building started to appear from 12:00 noon and became violent at 13:00.
For the swaying phenomenon of the Saige Building, mainland netizens said, “three consecutive shaking, has not yet caused enough attention, the consequences are very serious ah.” “This design is awesome! Did not install dampers are able to win the domestic awards ……” “before barely put together those few shaking reasons are untenable. Continue to use, not sure which day there will be problems.” “Every day at noon shake a little evil.” “Design defect! Poor quality building!” “Feel so dangerous, can not find the reason.” “The URA says it’s fine, let them go to the office! Strongly request to let experts to go inside the office and live.”
A few days ago, a document entitled “Shenzhen Futian District Huaqiang North Street Saige Square Building shaking situation report (continued)”, circulated on the Internet. The surging news reported that a staff member of the Guangdong Provincial Emergency Department confirmed the authenticity of the document.
According to the report, after the study and judgment of provincial and municipal experts, the preliminary conclusion was that “the Sage Plaza building was trembling up and down, not swinging from side to side”, and the experts attributed the cause of the trembling to “the wind, subway operation and temperature”.
However, the official report mentions that “the building was not equipped with dampers”.
Construction of the Sage Building began in 1996, was completed in September 1999 and was fully completed in 2000. During its construction, the building set a record in Shenzhen of building one floor every 2.7 days.
Recently, a 20-year-old master’s thesis “Shenzhen Saige Square Construction Project Analysis” pointed out that the construction of the Saige Building, a landmark building in Shenzhen, had some problems. Such as, there is the side of the construction to modify the design, construction first after the design, design drawings are not done to start construction.
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