Posted on 04/18/2018 8:40:20 AM PDT by NRx
And people wonder why the cost of anyplace to live here is so high; you really cant build up in SF very easily, and you cant build out because the bay is already too filled in and the fill is potential quicksand.
Its coming. The more high rises they build the more likely. Its San Francisco so I say keep up the good work!
Im tellin ya, theres so much crap on the sidewalks in San Fran that its gonna break off and slide into the sea.
You know your city is a shirthole when the city hires people to go out and measure the shirt on the sidewalks.
What a crappy job.
Pass the popcorn please.
175 Bluxome. Banana Republic, owned by The Gap moved all their office workers out of the building in one day due to ‘structural integrity’. The company was growing fast and the amount of office space there was insufficient. Got out of their contract with the building owner. Got sued for slander. The new tenants were a bunch of small businesses leasing small portions of the building. That was 1987. In 1989 the earthquake hit. Building collapsed. 4 people died under all the bricks. Those folks did not have there resources to check out safety issues.
Now we need a way to insure that the risk of the next quake is not passed on to the entire country or world. Increase the premiums paid in Frisco or limit the outside exposure.
We don’t want the bad decisions to build and the billions and maybe trillions to sink the whole u.s.a.
The funny thing is if the big one hits, itll be the bums living in tents who are spared while those expensive towers come crashing down.
The real question is how big on the Richter scale would the earthquake have to be to displace all the crap and used needles on the sidewalks?
If you will excuse my little correction, your big problem is that you are built on a big, hulking set of plate edge related faults. Of course, you are correct about the joys of building on a fill soup. Its going to be a tragedy.
You can get a degree in it from UC Berkeley.
They’re good decision-makers there in San Francisco. Don’t worry about a thing.
Not if the buildings fall onto the tents.
The Band Played On - Part II.
the Taipei 101 is only 600 feet from a fault line.
. The ginormous ball, of which the Burj Dubai has nine, was installed on in-place from 41 discrete steel plates because the combined weight of 730 tons would have been too heavy to lift by crane. The people even came up with a nickname for it: the Damper Baby. Don't look at me. The best I could come up with is some combination of “stabilizer” and “testicle”.
The beast awakens! a fun short video in the article. Might have to increase the rent, to cover the costs.
Famous Last Words
The name game—Hamburger is a structural engineer. :-)
I have actually met the guy. I attended a four hour forensic engineering presentation on the World Trade Center fires and collapse. He was the head of the three year forensic team that investigated the events.
That is astonishing!
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