Similar cityscape from "Elysium":
Posted on 02/01/2017 7:37:40 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Similar cityscape from "Elysium":
Idiocracy
Typically: Span/600 deflection can be allowed.
I look at those apartments then look at the surroundings around where i am typing and just cringe.
ugh....
Apparently, the builders were allowed to sink the building's pilings only halfway to bedrock.
I don't know what morons in building and safety signed off on the code that permitted such, but they need to pay a price for that gross, criminal negligence.
Recall the John Hancock Building, Chicago!
A friend was involved on this project.
I heard all about!
While setting a beam the engineer noticed a change in elevation!!
They had to jack the existing pours OUT, and go deeper!!
Prior to this event , it was a different name on the building, he ran out of funds!!
Khan’s design called for 57 caissons—8-foot-thick concrete columns—to be plunged into the bedrock to support the building’s 46,000-ton steel frame. One of those caissons had to be extended up to 197 feet below the surface, then a world record. But soon after the caissons were put in place, Khan received bad news from his field man at the site: One of the caissons had shifted seven-eighths of an inch: The base of the $100,000,000 building was sinking. Khan immediately called a meeting at the building site, looked at the concrete pillars, and cleared his head.
https://mentalfloss.atavist.com/the-man-who-saved-the-skyscraper
Also my guess is,the building would remain intact.
The underground services would be a problem.
My solution:
Take over an existing street at the side that is leaning. Install a brace stuck in the ground a block down that street, and install a hydraulic arm that reaches the side of the building about half way up. Extend the hydraulic arm until the building is straight upright. Decorate the brace with murals, and voila, an architectural icon is born.
That’s crazy! Wouldn’t putting the piles into bedrock reduced the number of friction piles - and the cost?
I worked on the demolition of an 8-year old 16 story condo. The tension wires in the concrete had not been coated with epoxy when they were trimmed off. So the wires were rusting. They spent a few million trying to fix the problem, and when that didn’t work they had to tear the whole thing down.
All because some worker didn’t put a dab of epoxy on the ends. Although I mentioned that to one of the managers of the demolition and he said something like “Yeah - except his boss should have been checking, the company inspector should have caught it, and the city inspector should have caught it too. So you had at least four people not doing their jobs.”
The funny part was the building was owned and built by the Carpenter’s Union and was to be a source of income for their pension plan!
I just read the article. After seeing the photos of the cracks and deteriorating walls in the basement, I wouldn’t stay there another night. Besides worrying about the building falling down, another article says stresses on the wiring system have been found, so there’s a long-term potential fire hazard too.
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>> “ I do feel sorry for people who bought there” <<
I dont!
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I’m from Central Illinois. Don’t you have to have hills to be a hillbilly? Illinois is flatter than a pancake.
As a bicycle rider, I can tell you that there few hills in Du Page County.
IIRC the highest point is a former garage dump, now a Forest Preserve. And it is not that tall!
So glad that he didn't, and that his sons didn't enter into a branding agreement with it. Bullet dodged. He wouldn't have built it so badly, however.
But... but... all cultures are equal! Knowledge is invalid because dead white males! There is no such thing as absolutes! The scientific method is unaffected by government grants! STEM needs more diversity! etc etc etc
And physics. There's a reason why the pyramids, built on sand, are shaped the way they are and still standing. Some building lots are just not suitable for tall towers.
Yes, the massive costs will be more than offset by what the illegals add to the American economy! /s
We had ground sinkage in a row of very ordinary suburban townhouses and one house had their gas line rupture. Could have blown up the whole unit block if he had been away on business and hadn't smelled it.
In the last analysis.....human error. Right?
Perhaps they could get all their special illegal immigrants to prop it up. Or maybe they could send their illegals back to wherever they came from and use the money for propping them up to fix their tower.
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