Lagena School of China: the incredible move of a 7,600 ton...

A 7,600-ton building was put to “walk” in Shanghai, China.

The five-story Lagena elementary school, built in 1935, had to be relocated to make room for the construction of a new project nearby.

Instead of tearing down the building with historical value, Engineers chose to completely lift the construction and mount it on 198 specially designed robotic legsstate media reported.

The thousands of tons of concrete construction moved a total of 61.7 meters to literally “walk” through the eastern Chinese city.

According to the state network CCTV, the maneuver was completed in 18 days and ended on October 15.

Now the building is being renovated for its historical preservation.

There are several methods of moving buildings, but usually platforms that are put on rails, or cranes of enormous capacity are used.

But the use of robotic legs with wheels, such as those used with the Lagena school, It has been a new strategy applied by Chinese engineering.

Shanghai has some experience in this field.

In 2017, A 135-year-old Buddhist temple weighing 2,000 tons was moved about 30 meters to prevent fires by burning incense from visitors.

After 15 days of small movements, the historic property reached its final destination.

This year, China also made headlines with another infrastructure project: building a 1,000-patient hospital in just 10 days.

The clinic was set up in Wuhan, the city where the first SARS-CoV-2 outbreak arose, which ended up leading to a pandemic.

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