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The media has treated the report from from the consulting engineers as a semi-smoking gun, I read it - I have a background in civil construction and work in ano
by Aloha 5y ago
The media has treated the report from from the consulting engineers as a semi-smoking gun, I read it - I have a background in civil construction and work in another engineering adjacent field, and if the issues they identified ends up being the root cause of this event, then I think that this will be a case study in how engineers need to learn to communicate both urgency and seriousness to non-engineers.
If this guy honestly felt that the building was at risk of imminent failure - which is what the media generally has been implying, it was not sufficiently communicated in the language used in the report, which fails to convey any sense of urgency. There is a whole bunch of pro-forma jargon, and pro-speak however, which seems to mask whatever its trying to say, and drains away the urgency from this.
- ryana 5y agoHonest question, would a 3 year time-to-failure be considered imminent?
- HarryHirsch 5y agoConsider the de Soto bridge in Memphis, TN, the one that carries the I-40 over the Mississippi. A crack in a main truss was found earlier the year during a scheduled inspection, and the bridge was closed immediately. Some guy on a holiday took photos in 2016, and the crack was visible then: https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2021/05/18/photos-show-i-bridge-damage https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2021/05/18/photos-show-i-brid... So - yes, things hold up until they suddenly fall over.
- HarryHirsch 5y agoYou wonder if there were political reasons behind the language used - the building should have been condemned since it was at immediate risk of collapse, but rich people do not like to be inconvenienced. So the engineer decided to protect himself, he told and hid the truth at the same time.