Tokyo sky tree falling ice

More worried about the thing falling over in a massive earthquake after faulty data and semi fake materials was revealed. One of my fiends lives about m away from the Skytree. His car was hit by a big piece of ice two years ago. It was irreparably damaged his car by crushing the roof. Of course he got an insurance claim and a new car, but his kids had been in the car less than half an hour beforehand. Anti-freeze is toxic , why not consider electric heating cables or hot water tubes installed vertically so that no build up occurs being quickly reduced to harmless water with zero impact on all concerned?

I believe this was a sufficient stress test. Do not worry! Just looking at the photo I can guess how far the strong winter winds must blow that ice. What damage could this do? JosephJ: Icing has never been a problem in Dubai, the average minimum temperature in January the coldest month is I mentioned this a few months back when they announced that they had reach a new record height for a free standing tower. At that time no windows had been installed but they had car-door-sized sheets of ice landing blocks away.

So woth the new monitors, I guess they can issue fall ice warnings How about cars driving in the area? Besides the pissing contest and building envy Japan has, what on earth is the point of this eye sore?

Ice falling from Chicago buildings including the Willis Tower in Chicago formerly known as the Sears Tower is an annual problem.

In a man was killed by ice that fell just four stories from a department store onto Michigan avenue. Have they been too clever for themselves? Although I admire what they did, I remember expressing the opinion here on JT that a Hundertwasser style of green gardens living complex would have been much more suitable for Tokyo, for a number of reasons too obvious to state here. It usually turns to slush!!!!! Snow doesn't last long in tokyo.

Then with the next strong wind the ice will get blown off and fall downwind of the tower. It's a support platform for digital TV transmission antennas. It had to be built higher than Tokyo Tower the analog TV transmission tower because the digital signals are more "line of sight" than the analog signals are. As tmarie says above, we've never heard of trouble around the CN Tower in Toronto. There's no need to re-invent the wheel. Just do what they did.

Fadamor, indeed, a new tower needed to be built but nothing the size of this monstrosity. Too much money with an ego issue. The community was against it due to safety issues.

Of course, no one listened to them. Tokyo Skytree deployed about 60 security guards on the ground near the steel tower to warn passersby about the possibility of falling ice. Warning or not from one of these falling-ice alert security guards, unless a pedestrian is constantly looking skyward as they walk there is probably not much likelihood they would dodge a falling projectile headed their way. Unfortunately, it seems just a matter of time before this results in injury or death.

I wonder if the Sky Tree has raised property value around it. If so, time to sell now and buy a larger house elsewhere. If this keeps happening, they might lose out. This is what their spokesperson says : "The monument is equipped with heating cable systems and heating installations on all horizontal surfaces to help melt ice quickly. Propylene glycol is sprayed on vertical surfaces to melt and prevent ice formations on an ongoing basis.

I agree, but then when in Japan do companies or the government listen to the people when a decision has been made? We live in the shadow of the tower and while I do expect them to do something to solve the problem of falling ice, contrary to tmarie's comment "The community was against it due to safety issues.

Every one of my neighbors, and my wife and I, are very happy to have it here. You may have read some negative articles, but believe me they were by journalists trying to find problems -- and you'll always find someone ready to criticize ANYTHING. We saw that as well with the "mounds of garbage" stories, which I pointedly searched for with absolutely no success. It's actually much cleaner now because of the efforts of the community, including the staff of Sky Tree.

We've lived here 25 years and it is absolutely better in Oshiage than it's ever been. Hunter, that is you and who you know. Countless of people were interviewed on TV and stated otherwise. The area as promised more business - a dying shotengai if I'm not mistaken. Te new cafes and the like have actually made business worse for them.

You can enjoy it but don't assume everyone else does. Any way I agree it's a problem that should have been thought of and resolved before it went up. As for the locals and tourists, perhaps STco can give them crash helmets to be safe untill some one smarte than the builders can resolve the problem. Property values in the area shot up creating instant millionaires. Rent of any room that had even a peak of the Skytree shot up. Now they will have to make a snow fall chunk fall index to determine how much property values should be reduced as you get closer to the tower.

No sense complaining now. That time has passed. They live in the shadow of the tower now. If anybody ever gets hurt or killed don't expect the insurance companies to pay out. It's an Act of God and no one will be able to confirm the snowball actually came from Tokyo Sky Tree. Someone is going to get hit or worse, security guards are not going to stop a piece of ice falling on you, let alone anyone seeing it at speed while falling and getting out of the way.

Sounds like the government needs to shut down the tower to vistors until it is fixed, it would actually get the owners to do something serious about it instead of installing cameras and security guards. Visitors to the tower has nothing to do with the situation.

The falling ice and snow isn't falling on them, it's falling on the residents of the neighborhood where the tower is located. What happened to the nets?! Thought in a previous JT article it stated that they were going to use these as well as the other totally useless measures described above Let's see some improvements and accountability here, especially before people get hurt.

In the future, I don't wanna see any news stories of people being impaled by Sky Tree icicles and such! Ah another example of a Japanese company designing and building something without examining and planning for various worse case events. And the charade goes on and on.