What could have been a great episode (the building rescue) was let down by people not checking with an expert on the structural design involved with concrete... beams and slabs shown with little or no reinforcing steel. The beams would have cages with numerous large bars and cross links into the columns, not one at each corner!!! The slabs would have at least one or two lattices of steel, not plain concrete!!! Absolutely ridiculous... if you are going to have 'serious incidents' in such shows at least get the elements right. As the goof comment says, not only did the 'concrete' move like styrofoam, it even looked like styrofoam... real concrete weighs 2.4 tonnes per cubic yard (150lb per cubic foot) you don't shove beams around like candyfloss. Such a pity when people don't do their research...
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