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City official: Upper floors of new BJC building are 'buckling'
St Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 3 Sept 2017 | S. Liss

Posted on 09/08/2017 8:49:07 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

ST. LOUIS • The city building commissioner says it appears the top floors of the north tower of BJC HealthCare’s new building under construction near Kingshighway and Forest Park Avenue are “buckling,” and he is asking the engineer in charge to verify that the floors were built correctly.

Building commissioner Frank Oswald said Friday that it appeared the floors were buckling on the sixth through 12th floors in the north tower.

...Rumors have been circulating for months that the floors in the building are not level. An IV pole placed on one of the floors rolled away, according to one report...

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


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To: wardaddy

“Anyone here read the article?”

What fun is that?


21 posted on 09/08/2017 9:27:23 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Please! DonÂ’t tell me about Vietnam because I have been there.)
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To: Red Badger

“Mexican Labor?”

If it was Mexican labor, the building would be fine - at least if my house is any indication. More likely quota-driven ‘local’ labor, if I had to guess.


22 posted on 09/08/2017 9:30:22 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Lol


23 posted on 09/08/2017 9:30:27 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Look for the building inspector(s) living above their means. No doubt they’d find one or two or ten.


24 posted on 09/08/2017 9:33:33 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Exactly! It held together remarkably well.

Couple Lulls and a crane and they can right it and grout it back in place....


25 posted on 09/08/2017 9:34:45 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

BJC = Bill Jefferson Clinton?


26 posted on 09/08/2017 9:34:47 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: jonno; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON
"We flip the appliances on their sides, turn the elevators into lateral tram cars, and we've got a brand new sideways apartment building."

~George Costanza, architect


27 posted on 09/08/2017 9:44:41 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: BobL

Look for the Union Label.......................


28 posted on 09/08/2017 9:56:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Exactly what went through my mind. A trip to Mexico clearly demonstrated to me that bubble levels are optional tools with those guys.


29 posted on 09/08/2017 10:00:31 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Larry Lucido

I think you mean, Art Vandelay, architect.


30 posted on 09/08/2017 10:15:07 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Pearls Before Swine
That fallen apartment building looks like it came up by the roots.

This is a different building site in Taiwan; there is some suggestion that the collapse of the building (during an earthquake) might have bee due in part to the use of CANS as filler material.
('cause cement is expensive!)


31 posted on 09/08/2017 10:20:06 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: jonno

Sorry - an ‘n’ disappeared...


32 posted on 09/08/2017 10:21:41 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Obadiah
I think you mean, Art Vandelay, architect.

I thought that was Fred Garvin ...


33 posted on 09/08/2017 10:22:19 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: jonno

A couple of years ago, I saw a photo of a bridge on the mainland where they found that under the concrete skin was a bunch of paper and cardboard refuse.


34 posted on 09/08/2017 10:27:53 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: GingisK

....or plumb bobs..................


35 posted on 09/08/2017 10:29:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Pretty ballsy of the contractor. He gambled that it wouldn’t be found in his lifetime.

I don’t imagine in China that he’d get off simply by paying a fine...


36 posted on 09/08/2017 10:32:13 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

This is a prime example of “common core affirmative action we don’t teach math ‘cause that’s raciss” type of engineering and business management.

And people get pissed when I say companies shouldn’t hire recent graduates from certain universities or colleges.


37 posted on 09/08/2017 10:41:54 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Idiocracy cometh.


38 posted on 09/08/2017 10:58:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Obadiah; Gamecock; SaveFerris

Yes, of course.

And he could coat the entire structure in latex.

After it is buffed out by Kruger Industrial Smoothing.


39 posted on 09/08/2017 11:20:21 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They must be using a hell of an accelerant then, 7-day compressive strength on a good pour is 70% of design strength.

I bet someone has screwed the pooch on the slab thickness or used the wrong mix design on the upper floor concrete, like they had lightweight spec’d and the kept using standard going up!


40 posted on 09/08/2017 11:31:52 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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