Posted on 10/12/2019 11:32:37 AM PDT by fatima
Multiple people were reportedly injured Saturday morning when part of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans collapsed.
STORY: Multiple injuries reported after Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans collapses
This is a developing story. See the photos below.
https://www.nola.com/multimedia/photos/collection_ba89561c-ed02-11e9-8934-378c4f7317af.html#1
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Lotta naked dangling rebar in those pics . . .
Agreed Cat. Looks to me like the 2 tower cranes survived, (but compromised no doubt). The grey colored box configured steel wreckage shown on the ground in one of the pix, (that looks like part of a collapsed yellow tower crane), appears to me like the building’s exterior shell, vertical steel guide/support rail system that the temporary construction ‘man lift’ elevator rides up and down on, was peeled away from the exterior shell as the floors above came down and ripped/pulled the rail system off, and then ended up on the ground. The video of this accident shows an additional angle also. Well, we will see I guess.
I agree,you see the Firemen rushing in as others are running away.Great pictures.
It looks to me like the upper floors are steel construction with steel columns, beams and Robinson or Verco deck (corrugated steel) with concrete poured on top. The lower floors appear to be cast concrete with post tension decks.
Just so. We are told that more government, more rules, more bureaucrats, more inspections etc are always the answer to every problem.
Construction. Health care. You name it.
How many illegals were on the work site? They aren’t known for their devotion to safety and building codes.
Have you noticed that the items most often used by illegal workers - drills, mixers, tools - are most often tagged with loss prevention devices at Lowe’s or Home Depot? It’s almost as if there’s a pattern of lawlessness...
Very interesting video. I saw pallets of block stacked on the top deck. It appeared that the steel frame on the curtain wall was incomplete but the CMU wall was being constructed. The steel connections were bolted but not welded yet. Buildings which are still under construction are missing structural elements and there are obviously far more risks of collapse than with complete buildings. Tragic.
Did the building inspectors pour the concrete and do the faulty construction?
Those look like pieces of the construction elevators mounted to the outside of the structure.
Much better photos at link since this morning.
Someone screwed up, that much is certain.
That wasn’t a crane. It was a construction elevator attached to the building.
Interesting how the building split right where the two cranes are and one of the cranes is leaning.
Jewish lightning?
But I thought that these modern building all collapse like WTC 7 and the Twin Towers....
That’s odd. I’ve seen concrete frame buildings that have collapsed (green concrete, lack of sufficient re-shores and/or mis-designed rebar) but I don’t recall ever seeing a steel framed, concrete on metal deck building have its slabs fail like this.
It was a steel framed building with metal deck. It wasn't a concrete framed building.
Check the video and you can see the crane collapsing. It fell on a building across the street.
That’s an odd comment. To use your own word - If the only thing you can reference is another chain, and you say without it the area is uninspired. Plenty of others would say that very choice is uninspired. Morton’s. A generic place you can go to anywhere. So just go.
That was not a crane...it was a material elevator.
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