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Can a modern building fail so spectacularly through incremental damage if it wasn't only borderline sound to start with? Is there any way to assess retrospectiv
by streamofdigits 5y ago
Can a modern building fail so spectacularly through incremental damage if it wasn't only borderline sound to start with? Is there any way to assess retrospectively how many corners may have been cut when erecting it? Charging for superior materials, but using sub-par materials seems to be number one "ethics dilemma" in this corner of the human experience
https://www.ethicaladvocate.com/construction-industry-ethics-dilemma/ https://www.ethicaladvocate.com/construction-industry-ethics...
- matwood 5y ago> Can a modern building fail so spectacularly through incremental damage if it wasn't only borderline sound to start with? Interesting question where I assume yes. No matter how well something is built, without proper maintenance it will eventually fail.
- streamofdigits 5y agoThats definitely true, but the timescale of which ultimate failure happens is critical. With billions of buildings on the planet if poor maintenance was such a major and primary risk factor materializing on a 40yr timespan I would expect many more buildings collapsing left and right. People can downvote my comment all they want, there will be a in-depth inquiry here and I will be surprised if it doesn't somehow transpire there was some pre-existing risk that precipitated events...