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To: dynachrome

There was a brand new Condo / Hotel Building built on the Vegas Strip that was so badly built it was never allowed to be occupied.

It had to be dismantled piece by piece before it collapsed on its own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harmon


7 posted on 06/29/2021 3:26:25 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I watched Mexican workers build two stories of a new hotel in cancun. About 10 guys and five gallon buckets with a hand operated bender for the rebar. They did it in one week. They still had around six more stories to go when we left.


9 posted on 06/29/2021 3:34:11 PM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

apparently one too many mafia-affiliated contractors cut one too many corners ....


14 posted on 06/29/2021 3:47:16 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

That caper was a lot more complex, and both JAMA, the original structural engineer, and WPM, who the county hired to do a third-party review agreed that the construction defects were repairable with the fix that the original engineer proposed.

Remember, that was during the height of the “great recession”, and the developers were upside down on the project, and looking to get out any way they could.

The Florida collapse is really strange though. Hard to figure out how that happened if it was not due to some sort of loss of support of the foundations.


28 posted on 06/29/2021 5:17:46 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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