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Thank the Lord they found this before 15,000 people piled in on a Friday night.
be thankful they weren’t Dam building....dumbasses
Is it under warranty?
I’ve been amazed by the lack of knowledge on the part of some construction superintendents. I had an interesting time as an inspector on a new school. The super clinched his jaw every time he saw me coming. We constantly had it out over concrete and several other issues. The architect was useless. It wasn’t exactly mano-a-mano for two years. But it was definitely nose to nose mucho times. There was one time I really wanted to say I told you so after the mechanical guy started up a chilled water pump and the coupling teeth were stripped. I walked into the mechanical room just in time to see the super standing there dumbfounded looking at the black pieces laying on the pad under the guard.
I finished that job knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the school will still be standing 100 years from now if they need it.
60 million dollars for a facility that is used maybe 10 times a year.
Ah well. The folks in Allen are rich.
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Now there are hundreds of shovel ready jobs to tear it down.
Only if their dumb enough to not have skipped out of the country.
Built in 2010, noticed cracking 2012 during construction…….
The firm identified areas in the stadium where the load demand on the structure exceeded accepted building standards by 10 to 20 percent. In isolated locations, that number was greater than 70 percent, according to the firm’s analysis.
“The deficiencies are outside of acceptable margins for error,” the firm said in a letter.
How do you allow 15,000 people to be at risk when you know during construction that the place is falling apart? What we need is some Roman engineers. They built stadiums to last.
Another FIDENAE in the making? And I thought the arena in Little Rock AR was bad about 14 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidenae
Stadium disaster
“In 27 AD, an apparently cheaply built wooden amphitheatre, constructed by an entrepreneur named Atilius, collapsed in Fidenae resulting in by far the worst stadium disaster in history with as many as 20,000 dead and wounded out of the total audience of 50,000.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just demolished the stadium and started all over again. And have someone swimming in petroleum money like Jerry Jones or T. Boone Pickens pick up the tab this work.