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I guess they had the forsight/experience to occasionally send one of their civil engineers to inspect the building site and make sure material and techniques we

• jeroenhd 4y ago
  I think it's less about the foresight and more about being willing to spend the extra cash. Shoddy construction is often cheaper, easier, or faster, those are the driving forces behind ignoring code. I doubt many engineers would choose to avoid the catastrophes they've been taught to avoid in their work, because they know better than anyone what the impact of such catastrophes will be. There will always be bad people, but there are more constraints than just lack of skill or foresight that make these disasters unfold.