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> 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

• streamofdigits 5y ago
  Thats 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...