Posted on 02/29/2020 2:23:56 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The spans had passed all design reviews and inspections, met all required specifications and were designed and built by some of the most highly regarded firms in the buildings sector.
(Excerpt) Read more at enr.com ...
Please stand back! The multitude of attorneys need more air to breathe.
Are we supposed to care about something that didn't happen in California and what the heck is ENR California?
what the heck is ENR California
ENEEGERNING NEWS-RECORD
I happened to have my newest bifocals on and it was quite visible, but very small print.
This is interesting because everything was done according to plans and specifications and the huge beams failed.
So now who will they sue?
As we all know the taxpayers will cough it up and the attorneys will take a large chunk.
To say...
At the SalesForce Center, there was a girder fracture, and this is the final engineering report concerning the incident.
Basically the welding sequence caused the embrittlement. The embrittlement caused the fractures. Other structural elements of the same type did not fail most probably because of a different welding sequence. Sounds like the design did not have sufficient design redundancy safety factor to me, especially given the unstable site conditions. IMHO
“At the SalesForce Center, there was a girder fracture, and this is the final engineering report concerning the incident.”
Obviously you should stick to flopping burgers.
I have never heard of Final Salesforce Center and had never heard of a building collapse in California. I was wondering why people post local news without explaining why it is news. I still don’t know what this is all about. How many people were killed when the building came down?
It Was Supposed to Be the Safest Building in the World. Then It Cracked.
How San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center went from the Grand Central of the West to a $2.2 billion construction debacle.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a29329189/salesforce-transit-center-cracks/
“I was wondering why people post local news without explaining why it is news.”
This was a major news item when it was discovered.
No, it was not on the sports page or the political page.
Still real news. Oh and Salesforce is a major lib corporation.
Thanks for the link, but the engineering details were a mind numbing blur and I don't remember the difference between Folsom Street and Fremont street.
It seems the national news was that another scandal was exposed on the left coast but no catastrophic event happened and now no fault was found.
It reminds me of our military telecommunications (Tech Control) joke, "the trouble is leaving here five-by."
Chinese steel perhaps?
US made steel fabricated into a beam in the USA.
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