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More information on how the design defect in the Citicorp building was fixed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center#Engineering_crisis_of_1978 http://e
by zeynel1 17y ago
More information on how the design defect in the Citicorp building was fixed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center#Engineering_crisis_of_1978 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center#Engineering_cr...
Original New Yorker article:
http://www.duke.edu/~hpgavin/ce131/citicorp1.htm http://www.duke.edu/~hpgavin/ce131/citicorp1.htm
- wallflower 17y agoAn important factor that I remember when we went over this in Engineering Ethics: The Citigroup executive vice president was a trained engineer. "Reed was well equipped to understand the problem. He had an engineering background, and he had been involved in the design and construction of Citicorp Center"