The Tofu Building Incidents 

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"Imagine trying to leave your apartment..." Now you're being unreasonable

In the case of Turkey. There was one city where almost no buildings were damaged and thats because that cities mayor refused to take bribes and made sure builders followed the proper building practices.

Another chapter in the textbook titled “Why We Have All Those Pesky Government Regulations.”

It's like buildings are made to be assets that are merely traded and sold rather than for actually living in

China: Build it fast and cheap. Also China: Don't talk about failures or you'll disappear.

It should also be noted that, due to extreme levels of censorship by the Chinese government, most of this footage has to be effectively "smuggled" out of the country in the first place, so this is realistically only a small glimps of a (most likely) much bigger issue in China...

It's so scary, at one moment you are in your bed, sleeping peacefully, in the next moment you are trapped in a hell of concrete, dust and fire... Nobody should experience such a tragedy!

In Canada at the moment, we are facing something of a housing crisis. People always say things like "loosen the building codes and we can build more houses faster", and as an Architect I continuously cited the Turkey earthquake as to why we should not. Now I have other incidents to point to as to why we shouldn't.

"you just took out a huge loan after working your whole life to buy your own apartment" damn, that first line made me think of little Jhon, galvanized square steel videos have ruined me.

During Roman times when building stone arches, the engineer/architect was required to stand underneath the stone arch as the scaffolding was removed. You have to hold these people accountable for their actions.

I'm glad to see more and more mainstream channels talking about this. It's not just in China that they're building infrastructure like this, but also in other countries who've agreed to have projects done by the Chinese government or companies.

Idea for the next video: The Wisconsin Butter Fire. A warehouse fire in Madison, Wisconsin resulted in a massive flood of molten cheese and butter. Truly one of the most outlandish (but true) disasters in history!

China's policies that incentivize the purchase of newly-built homes over existing homes are partly to blame for the tofu dreg problem. By artificially increasing demand for newly-built homes and reducing demand for existing homes, they helped create the conditions to encourage developers to build as many homes as possible as quickly and cheaply as possible. That's how corners get cut and safety gets ignored.

11:48 A 40 year old building collapsing due to poor maintenance is rather different than 5-10 year old structures collapsing due to shoddy build quality.

12:10 um, to be fair, the ‘tofu dreg’ infrastructure seen in China is way different than what occurred at the condo high rise in South Florida. In the case of China, they are already built with Tofu dreg and don’t last long. That condo high rise lasted decades and only collapsed because of poor maintenance and long term neglect by the building owners, due to money, poor drainage of highly salient water leading to it going into the siding of the building and ultimately deteriorating the support columns

Hearing all this would make me think twice about walking across one of those glass bridges!

Normal Chinese Designs:

The girl’s volleyball disaster was heartbreaking when I first heard of it. I’m glad you’ve highlighted it again ♥️

This is what happens when you have lax safety standards, dodgy quality inspections and irresponsible construction companies. Along with province officals being self serving, only caring about face.

@ChinaInsiderWithDavidZhang Talks a lot about Tofu Dreg incidents and their effects on the Chinese population along with the suppression of information within China.

You can Anglify "tofu dreg project" as "breadcrumb buildings."

But we built it with extra firm tofu! None of that silken crap! I promise!

Tofu Dreg often simply called "Chinesium"

Dang, I thought drywall was bad☹️

One error or misinformation is at 0:52. The dam colapse in the video is from the USA - Lake Dunlap dam 14.5.2019

Next thing you know they will be making Pasta Plazas.

Thank you for taking my suggestion and covering Tofu construction.

And the CCP is to Blame for this and all other problems in China especially ones like food safety

What happens when the basics of civilization and living- food, water, and shelter- are treated as investments rather than the foundational necessities for the societies to continue What happens when a group of people are barred from the basics? Well, history shows exactly what happens and China has seen it many times from one Dynasty to another

Vegans have been real quiet since this dropped.

I hadn’t heard of any of these incidents in China. That gym collapse is galling; who the f*** allowed the materials to be stored up there?!!

When you make it out of Tofu what do you expect?

I am happy to see a channel with a more general focus covering Chinese issues.

I would expect nothing less from a Chinese manufactured product.

Maybe we should replace "made in china" with "tofu dreg from china" for everything made from china 😂😂😂

You should have seen the high speed rail train that fell off the tracks and they dug a hole and buried it in place with the bodies still in it.

An old Chinese proverb says: "If you can cheat, then cheat !" This is the result of such a way of thinking.

The dam at 52 seconds was in the US, not china

L for Tofu Dreg Projects

Earthquakes and this is why I fear sitting under and being on bridges in a vehicle and also why I fear being in parking structures. I have the Loma Prieta quakes and the Northridge Quake to thank for that.

Made in China thats says all :D

Im just glad I am not Chinese 😅😅😅

Could you do a video on the Oceana explosion in Gothenburg, Sweden earlier this year? The incident killed 1 and injured a few and it's not been covered enough internationally in my opinion.

Cutting corners leads to disaster. It’s not just in construction, but in maintenance.

it's not only poor building materials and poor construction standards, it's also a general lack of maintenance that occurs on all levels. throw in the rampant corruption on top of these problems and it's easy to see why buildings seemingly fall apart with ease

I just realized you can’t just crumble your way out because there are layers of it above you, it’s heavy and then you will most likely inhale the dust.

"...after working your whole life to buy your own apartment..." completely unhinged and unreasonable, you can only rent for 70 years

Spell it with me: C-o-r-r-u-p-t-I-o-n. And this is not like the surfside disaster. The surfside problem is about neglect. The Chinese problem is not caring about the construction in the very first place.

Those poor volleyball players

I feel like he explained the Tofu dreg in China quite well. If he teamed up with Serpentza, he would be unbeatable at covering disasters like this.

This is heart breaking. None of these people had to die. It hurts even more when you talked about how students died because of shoddy construction and skimmed funds. I am so sick of this being global at this point. Greed is global. People are not disposable. Thank you for covering this.

Tofu Projects is one of the worst thing could happen.

If only they had used galvanized steel, eco-friendly wood veneer and screws borrowed from their aunt to legally reinforce their buildings...

SerpentZA and Laowhy talk about this for years.

N they want y'all to b driving EV's which r mainly produced n China... Um no thank u

Your videos scare me but i like watching them, Hi!

Bruh, that Turkey earthquake had literally wippied out an entire city 💀💀

Drywall is a natural sourced material, gypsum, which is mined. It is hydrated (bound with two water molecules) calcium sulfate. "Cave of the Crystals" is a pure gypsum formation. In China, where they mine it, they take away and include large amounts of source rock with the gypsum. The gypsum gets "burnt" or slaked, mixed with the crushed source rock and water, and the paste is used to make drywall. The source rock they used contains a large percentage of iron pyrite and other sulfide minerals. When the drywall gets damp both chemical and biological activity begins: the matrix of the drywall hosts native bacteria that lived in the rock and metabolizes the sulfur minerals releasing toxic hydrogen sulfide gas. Last I heard, *Chinese Drywall* resulted in about 100,000 homes being condemned, mostly in Florida. The country ran short of domestic drywall because Florida volunteered to absorb about six or a dozen... About nine I think... Hurricanes in like 18 months. Then moist salt air, and still damp houses, had the Chinese Drywall reacting and stinking up the houses and making people sick.

China Uncensored has covered this topic in their reporting.

Imagine using newspaper to make concrete in a building. No need to imagine, they actually did it.

I like this style of video, you take multiple incidents showing a pattern and it's amazing 👏🤩

"The in-depth story of the Chinese Tofu Building Incidents." And you show us a colapsing dam in US Texas (Dunlap Dam) whitch was in May 14, 2019. Dont really mind, cause i came here to watch things collaps. Just shows 0 research was involved.

Chinese manufactured high grade maple wood door usually looks fantastically pleasing and feel luxurious, until you give it a kick or punch, you only get to know It's packed with Chinese newspaper between two thin layers of wood veneer.

at least this shit is a global problem.

Wait...so were people just walking around their buildings intentionally crumbling the shoddy cement? Like...what did you think would happen? At minimum, you're making the collapse happen sooner rather than later.

If they had used galvanized square steels and eco friendly wood veneer durable for 10000 years this would never happened

Some serious tofu dreg incidents in Korean cities as well. Unfortunately Chinese cases are often better known simply because of their sheer numbers. And a lot of these incidents are happening now because the buildings in question are now old enough for their egregious flaws to lead to catastrophic failure....

so thats why they use galvinized squre steel eco friendly wood veneer screws from your auntie comfy matress and wall padding

It's amazing that the Chinese, until recently, put all their money into this garbage.

what happens when you don't use galvanized steel beams and eco friendly wood veneer secured to the wall using screws you borrowed from your aunt

Tofu projects are everywhere in China

Obligatory "made in China" comment

*Disclaimer* All first responders portrayed in this video footage are NOT paid actors.

I already knew about the school thing from the China Show. Still pretty sad so many people were taken because of corruption.

Made in China

-5000 social points for this video. Better not travel to China with that balance.

This is poor regulation of capitalism issue. Poor regulations ruin everything.

Tofu Dreg* Building Incidents.

they should eat tofu not build with it

one of those videos of the dam i know happened in the US like this year

I like my nice, boring house. Built on the ground, with a basement where I can plainly see the bricks and beams holding it up.

another day of being thankful that i dont live in china

Developers nowadays favor quantity over quality. This leads to shoddy construction & buildings collapsing. I feel for the families of the victims.

I use to think that whenever videos showing such outrageous construction disasters highlighted more of the exception rather than the rule. Over the past five years I’ve come to an informed conclusion that the reality of all tofu dreg videos I’ve seen on the internet is a gross under representation of the reality that’s hidden and silenced from being seen by the public. Remember kids, corruption starts and goes from the top-down! My condolences for those wrongfully affected by tofu dreg construction. ❀✿

Politicians feel too safe, globally.

Great product placement. For real that actually made me think about it

Dude, I'd just quit my city job and move to a small country town or something making aquamarine pigments.

Road washed out by erosion happens every day also in occidental countries. Nobody cares to much keeping the water drains from contention walls clean. I remember a huge rock falling into the highway A8 near Bilbao (Spain) in 2005.

8:46 PERLITE? SERIOUSLY?!!! WHAT THE HELL! .............. why not the excavator next?!

This is what happens when you have a woefully corrupt government. So sad. 😪

Read about *Chinese Drywall*

Not just the Chinese you know... America and Canada are full of crap infrastructure and building projects made from pressboard and sand it would seem... In my hometown of Edmonton I can think of at least two current scandals involving local construction gone wrong including an entire 4-floor, 80+ unit apartment building held together with aluminum tie straps that would have collapsed in a moderate windstorm. And this was found out only after a fire gutted the building discovering design and build flaw after design and build flaw. And because the developer used shell companies for the entire project from subcontracting out the labor to financing and insuring it they will never be held responsible... And our latest metro line was opened 3 years behind schedule because the piers were discovered to have fatal flaws only weeks before opening that would have resulted in a Mexico City-style subway/pier collapse!

Its sad to think that all of that could have been avoided by using galvanized square steel

When "Made in China" hits home.

Imagine somehow sleeping through the building collapse and then waking up the next morning to see your room like this 12:30

But communism is great lol

Wumao bots in the comments lol

The Chinese government is just insane

Build your own house. Not that hard as you might think.