Moment roof-top swimming pool collapses through onto floor below

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[absalom01]

We’ll never get the rest of the story, but my bet is that the building operator knew that the pool was leaking, probably for years. The original engineering design was probably fine, but corrosion (and the third-world tradition of skimping on the rebar) led to a sudden tensile failure. An insufficient design, with way too little rebar should have lead to a plastic failure, much earlier in the structure’s service life.

[Born to Conserve]

It used to be you could “go Galt”. Now, they fire you before you have the chance.

[Spacetrucker]

Look closer - it wasn’t the bottom of the pool that failed. The pool appeared to be side-anchored, structural stability was based on side hangers ... there was no bottom support.

[albie]

I was a laborer at a high rise construction site in the 70’s in Northern Va that caved in after the pool on the top floor collapsed. Killed quite a few guys.

[Travis McGee]

Yep. Lawyers will be busy.

[Jolla]

Our apt pool is on the third floor above the garage here in Fort Worth, sucker froze 4 inches thick during the Deep Freeze in Feb, people were skating on it until the thaw, now its a nice rain collector/mosquito breeding station.