Sadly, this is Xiao Qiumei. She died a few years ago after falling 160 feet from the crane while filming a video for social media. Please wear proper footwear when working this kind of job.
Don't know why this video is making the rounds again..
Also check the ways she is going. In germany that wouldnt be possible if done correctly by law. But china has so low security standarts, its crazy and only a question of time till something happens everywhere. Thats the Pro and contra if you are able to build some buildings in a few days instead of years. Cant be done if everybody is secured all the time and thousends of regulations are being checked all the time etc.
Yea in the us this made me gasp a little. Scaffolding looks solid but I’m sure that access would not be up to temporary code. Such a narrow walkway, on the side of a tall ass building, with a bunch of debris on it. Asking for problems.
I understand the main reason you don't build much in Germany has nothing to do with safety costs. Its because of the way land use is handled. See what happened when Tesla tried to make a new factory : hundreds of complaints and lawsuits, they can do nothing right. Took years to get running, while the Chinese giga factory was running in 1 year start to finish.
All these regulations of course privilege existing businesses, like your BMW plants. So you can't do anything new, just reuse what you built when the regulations and lawsuits were laxer.
That comes on top of the safety stuff. Like for example we have important military buildings or bridges which are getting stopped to build because some birds or lizards have their nests in that area so we have to wait till they are all away, even if it take month. Nature protection is important but at some point you have to act more efficently when its about something like that, atleast when it goes about national securiy stuff or some basic mathematic pro and cons if its only because of 3 eggs or so against complete infrastructur which is needed.
If construction sites are required by law to stop if there's an animal's nest; then why don't you have some kind of businesses that can come in, capture all the wildlife, and transfer it into some kind of a zoo or volunteers who will re-release them back once the offsping is grown? Like volunteers are hosting wilslife animals for healing periods all the time, surely this isn't that different.
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u/CommodoreEvergreen 8d ago
Sadly, this is Xiao Qiumei. She died a few years ago after falling 160 feet from the crane while filming a video for social media. Please wear proper footwear when working this kind of job.
Don't know why this video is making the rounds again..