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 HealthCares 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...
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“Anyone here read the article?”
What fun is that?
“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.
Lol
Look for the building inspector(s) living above their means. No doubt they’d find one or two or ten.
Exactly! It held together remarkably well.
Couple Lulls and a crane and they can right it and grout it back in place....
BJC = Bill Jefferson Clinton?
~George Costanza, architect
Look for the Union Label.......................
Exactly what went through my mind. A trip to Mexico clearly demonstrated to me that bubble levels are optional tools with those guys.
I think you mean, Art Vandelay, architect.
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!)
Sorry - an ‘n’ disappeared...
I thought that was Fred Garvin ...
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.
....or plumb bobs..................
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...
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.
Yes, of course.
And he could coat the entire structure in latex.
After it is buffed out by Kruger Industrial Smoothing.
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!
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