The Shanghai Fire Brigade sponded to three alarms on Nov.
'AUOSI pam, machines turned out 0 tackle a fife in the, Wayride Bath 1120"'Broadway.. When the ite: wan louse, a two-storeyed building at
subdued, the building wes badly damaged. At 909 pan. a bigger fire Penang Road, near Kinochow Road, necessitated' the attendance of machines from the Tehang Station. Twelve country houses were destroy= the major problems was the deter~ mination of the depth and shape of that part of the soil beneath a structure within which most of the compression during settlement oceur~ red; the qpnly feasible method was to plant "underground bench marks beneath and around the structure to a depth of at least one and a half times its mean width, An Important investigation was the determination of the amount swelling in the mud floor of an exeavatiom Mx. Watson pointed out that if excavation and construction of a building could be carried out instantaneously, or. alternatively. the floor of the foundation pit held firm= ly down during and after excavation Until completion of the new building, the mud would suffer no me erence in volume and no consequent Toss of strength, and would be able to support a new building of the same oF less weight than the mass of excavated mud, without any settle ment taking place sclative to the surrounding ground.
He referred to a, proposed series of small-scale experiments, and said Wt had been argued that small-scale experiments on. real mud were Waste of time, The question of what scale then urase, or "when Is a foot mit so small that it is not worth testing?" Compared with the Empire State Building, the Parle Hotel Was a small-scale alfair—but that did not mean that no valuable lessons could be learned {rom the behaviour of such a building.
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