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Toronto has certainly had 40° days and there were no concerns at the time with the runways melting.

by xattt 4y ago

Scoundreller 4y ago
The roads on the other hand…
floatrock 4y ago
Great, sounds like you engineered things for your expected temperature ranges. Story here is a major piece of infrastructure is experiencing temperatures outside of its designed-for temperature range.
- jacquesm 4y ago
  Toronto is interesting in that it has to deal with a fairly extreme range of temperatures between summer and winter, in the UK the spread is much more narrow (or at least, it was).
kennend3 4y ago
As someone who lives in the GTA... Your post doesn't make sense for two reasons. 1) Toronto airport was built to withstand these temperatures as we have reached them before. Basically it is within the expected design parameters. UK's airport is experiencing temperatures outside its normal range. Building infra is a lot of cost/benefit analysis. Building runways to experience the wide temperature range Toronto faces is very costly. 2) A lot of our infrastructure has been impacted by "extreme heat" as well. How many times has GO transit issued "reduced speed" notifications due to track temperatures?
- xattt 4y ago
  > UK's airport is experiencing temperatures outside its normal range This certainly seems like a case of infra debt catching up.
  - tehbeard 4y ago
    How is it debt to not massively overengineer? They're concern would have been handling rainfall within nominal temperature ranges, not building it to handle every possible scenario? Would you consider it tech debt if the runway structure failed when a UFO landed due to its exhaust causing resonance?
  - kennend3 4y ago
    Or the classic "penny wise and pound foolish" which is fitting as the saying originated in the UK. Perhaps they opted to error on the side of "lets be really optimistic on temperature ranges and save a lot of money on materials"?

Toronto has certainly had 40° days and there were no concerns at the time with the runways melting.

by xattt 4y ago

Toronto has certainly had 40° days and there were no concerns at the time with the runways melting.

Scoundreller 4y ago

The roads on the other hand…

floatrock 4y ago

Great, sounds like you engineered things for your expected temperature ranges. Story here is a major piece of infrastructure is experiencing temperatures outside of its designed-for temperature range.

jacquesm 4y ago
Toronto is interesting in that it has to deal with a fairly extreme range of temperatures between summer and winter, in the UK the spread is much more narrow (or at least, it was).

kennend3 4y ago

As someone who lives in the GTA... Your post doesn't make sense for two reasons. 1) Toronto airport was built to withstand these temperatures as we have reached them before. Basically it is within the expected design parameters. UK's airport is experiencing temperatures outside its normal range. Building infra is a lot of cost/benefit analysis. Building runways to experience the wide temperature range Toronto faces is very costly. 2) A lot of our infrastructure has been impacted by "extreme heat" as well. How many times has GO transit issued "reduced speed" notifications due to track temperatures?

xattt 4y ago
> UK's airport is experiencing temperatures outside its normal range This certainly seems like a case of infra debt catching up.
- tehbeard 4y ago
  How is it debt to not massively overengineer? They're concern would have been handling rainfall within nominal temperature ranges, not building it to handle every possible scenario? Would you consider it tech debt if the runway structure failed when a UFO landed due to its exhaust causing resonance?
- kennend3 4y ago
  Or the classic "penny wise and pound foolish" which is fitting as the saying originated in the UK. Perhaps they opted to error on the side of "lets be really optimistic on temperature ranges and save a lot of money on materials"?