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The photos could indicate a general lack of proper maintenance and concern, but these photos aren’t even from the part of the building that collapsed: > The eq
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
The photos could indicate a general lack of proper maintenance and concern, but these photos aren’t even from the part of the building that collapsed:
> The equipment room runs along the southern wall of the building — an area that did not collapse.
The internet commentary isn’t very helpful. We need to wait for official reports, but the media will try to extrapolate from any tiny pieces of information in the mean time
- Gibbon1 5y agoThe media and a lot of people want to frame this as a melodrama and are now casting about for someone to play the part of the villain.
- hcrisp 5y agoYeah, I noticed a lot of attention in the media is on the pool support corrosion, but it apparently did not collapse, though it seems to have emptied out. With the other anecdotal notes about the subfloor pumps wearing out and water pooling in the subfloor garage closer to the building, it seems more likely there was a longstanding leak that lead to a sinkhole forming or perhaps rebar corrosion. I recall from my civil engineering course that concrete has a high compression yield point but a poor tensile one, hence the need for rebar. Take away part of the foundation or wear away the structure in such a way that the weakened rebar is forced to take the load, and suddenly you have a catastrophic failure like the one that occurred.
- ummonk 5y agoIf another part of the building was in such bad condition, there is a high probability that the part of the building that collapsed was also in bad condition.