Sway Tower, the Tallest Unreinforced Concrete Structure (2020)
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Nowadays for projects meant to last people use stainless steel reinforcement or even carbon fiber reinforcement, but these are expensive.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/120680285#/?channel=R...
Though that's only 5 floors being listed on the floor plan, the article claims the tower has 14 (not including the topmost observatory), do you know what their statuses are? Are they not converted / finished?
They have low price tags, but they likely are liabilities rather than assets.
Not really great though
Unless I am completely confused, this cannot be true. Concrete has been used since the ancient Romans while iron and steel reinforcements were only really developed in the mid 19th century.
My understanding is that the use of Roman concrete was very highly centralised in and around Rome, and tailed off dramatically towards the outer reaches of the Empire. Indeed I've seen this cited as the key factor in the technology going extinct -- basically, it was very locally endemic.
In any case, I'm unaware of any Roman concrete structures having been found in Britain, so this statement may indeed be true.
Obviously, the only version of this claim that could be true is that Sway Tower was the first building in England built exclusively of unreinforced concrete. (There were uncountable buildings built by using unreinforced concrete and stone, e.g., the third Eddystone Lighthouse completed in 1759.) But I’d still find it very surprising that people built structures in England from reinforced concrete for decades without anyone trying to do it without the reinforcement. (“The first home built using reinforced concrete was a servant’s cottage constructed in England by William B. Wilkinson in 1854.”)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-stu...
That's good? Isn't employing the unemployed ... the usual way to employ?
Most businesses don’t go out of their way to look for unemployed people (e.g. the random beggar at the corner of the street who seems at least physically fit for light manual labour) to employ.
If you are physically, mentally, and intellectually fit for any kind of work, yet are neither employed nor actively seeking employment, you’ll usually be shunned by most employers in a capitalist society.
This wooden pagoda is 220 feet.
Sway Tower has unique merits, not least being cheaper to buy.
Edit: I did read the article, but couldn’t tell if the village or the tower was named first.