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"There’s no reinforced steel here,” she says, “so the concrete lost its strength and the columns collapsed, along with the floors, as soon as the ground started
by thimkerbell 4y ago
"There’s no reinforced steel here,” she says, “so the concrete lost its strength and the columns collapsed, along with the floors, as soon as the ground started to shake.”"
"'The problem lies in implementation and oversight'" of building codes that are strict on paper.
- rsync 4y agoThat's unbelievable. I was expecting to learn that marginal corners had been cut ... best practices had not been followed, etc. But concrete high rise superstructure without steel reinforcement (like rebar) is beyond the pale. How could you even construct that and escape notice (and alarm!) from passersby ? How could you silence (every single worker at the site) ?