Is Dubai a miracle?

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jan 20, 2018 at 07:24

Peter you wrote:

>Dubai talks itself up, but if you stay there for any period of time you see how truly messed up the place really is. It is the little things, well designed buildings using the best materials, but assembled by unqualified Bangladeshi and Indian slave workers, means even the new buildings are falling apart before they are finished. I am yet to encounter a Hotel where the plumbing or air-con is not constantly having to be fixed, or bits of buildings are falling off or cracking.

You described it so well I recall reading comments by an Egyptian civil engineer, who trained in England, following the last fire at the Torch tower. He wrote that Dubai's problems are: buildings are poorly constructed and poorly maintained and the building code is not well enforced and the end results are fires

Check this

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/world/middleeast/torch-tower-dubai-fire.html

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