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It is part of the engineer's job to anticipate age and maintenance (or lack of maintenance) when they're designing their structures. And it is the engineer's m
by engineer_22 5y ago
It is part of the engineer's job to anticipate age and maintenance (or lack of maintenance) when they're designing their structures. And it is the engineer's moral responsibility to uphold public safety above all other concerns. We may see changes to the code to prevent another catastrophic failure like this one.
- moring 5y agoAre such changes a rare occasion? I had naively expected this cycle (accident, analysis, changes to code or law, quiet period, then another accident with a less obvious cause) to be a tragic but necessary engineering routine. I'm referring to that "profound change" that, to me, sounded like there would be a change to that cycle itself, not just updates to the building code.