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Property in Azerbaijan
24.08.2007 at 18:57:48

A friend pointed out a curious fact about the cost of landed property in Baku http://ilgarmammadov.livejournal.com/85712.html

"Поместье Стенсруд (Stensrud estate) площадью в 2,3 гектара в пляжном калифорнийском городке Дель Мар неподалеку от Сан-Диего, продано за 76 миллионов долларов, пишет издание SignOnSanDiego.com. Это самая большая сумма, заплаченная когда-либо в США за гектар.

Я вспомнил эту вчерашнюю новость, услышав сейчас по ANS TV, что самый дорогой участок в Баку недавно был продан по цене 350 тысяч долларов за сотку, то есть за одну сотую гектара. Делим 76 миллионов на 230 соток, и получаем рекордную американскую цену 330 тысяч за сотку! Ничем хорошим такая политика не кончится."

Shame and disgrace on us for this! Our country doesn't even have any substantial produce -- even most of its oil is produced by foreigners -- and yet the cost of property in Baku (and that of extremely low quality by any standards) managed to reach and even surpass Californian rates Grin

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Reply #2 - 30.08.2007 at 14:30:45

The attached picture shows what the recently collapsed building near the Caspian Plaza looked like before the event.

Note the piles of limestone bricks concentrated at practically the same location on each floor.

Structural stability calculations in Civil Engineering never actually attempt to perform a detailed analysis of distributed loads, even if only static ones -- instead, civil engineers assume the loads to be evenly distributed and add a hefty safety margin. Apparently in case of this building, neither the safety factors applied to the stability calculations, nor the construction supervisor's understanding of civil engineering were adequate...

Some people are trying to pass this deadly incident as a one-off exception from the otherwise "blooming" reality of our property development... Of course that is laughable -- the collapsed building, both in terms of quality of its design and construction, is at par with most, if not practically every, new high-rise in Baku...

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Re: Property in Azerbaijan
Reply #3 - 30.08.2007 at 17:52:54

Quote from roy on 30.08.2007 at 14:30:45:

The attached picture shows what the recently collapsed building near the Caspian Plaza looked like before the event.

Note the piles of limestone bricks concentrated at practically the same location on each floor.

Structural stability calculations in Civil Engineering never actually attempt to perform a detailed analysis of distributed loads, even if only static ones -- instead, civil engineers assume the loads to be evenly distributed and add a hefty safety margin. Apparently in case of this building, neither the safety factors applied to the stability calculations, nor the construction supervisor's understanding of civil engineering were adequate...

Some people are trying to pass this deadly incident as a one-off exception from the otherwise "blooming" reality of our property development... Of course that is laughable -- the collapsed building, both in terms of quality of its design and construction, is at par with most, if not practically every, new high-rise in Baku...

Very good approach, indeed. As it's been mentioned and seen on collapsing time videos on ANS the building collapsed to it's right-front side where exactly the loads accumulated as Roy mentioned. This had a big effect on the tragedy apparently.
And this is the second collapsing case in last few days (one near to Neopol restaurant) which again puts quality of other buildings under the big question mark. I would say, we are just lucky not having every day one collapse in these terms. But we are having nearly one death at these constructions every day though. Recently OFFICIAL numbers announced sth like 267 deaths at building areas in last one year, which is a lot less than the actual number I believe.

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