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Yes, this happened with a building built in NYC in the late 1970's: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_tower_design_flaw_that_could_hav

Yes, this happened with a building built in NYC in the late 1970's: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_tower_design_flaw_that_could_have_wiped_out_the_skyscraper.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t... An undergraduate doing a class project on the building uncovered the flaw.

mmahemoff 10y ago
"It was only after seeing the documentary that she began to learn about the impact that her undergraduate thesis had on the fate of Manhattan." Amazing story.