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Thread: New Building Works in China - Will they stand the test of time?
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[quote=JABAROOTOO,233056]Yes, this is so true. I live in a building that is barely five years old and already looks mush older and bits and peices of the interior are coming unstuck. Of course the interior is not the responsibility of the builders but the quaility of the workers employed by the owners to completer the 'decorating', term used lightly here in most instances. One of my other apartments had a curious plumbing issue and when I was introduced to the 'master' plumber I could hardly surpress my laughter at not only his title but the quaility of his workmanship and what he was intending to do to alleviate the problem. I also visited Fengdu, one of the Three Gorges casualties, in 2003 and was suprised to learn that most of the city I could then see was only two years old at that time but it looked much older and just as tired as buildings ten times that age. Unskilled labour, lack of suitable equipment, attention to detail and maintenance are just some of the drawbacks to this speedy push towards modernization.[/quote]
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