As a guy who is involved in this sort of thing, I know the drill. The residents will ask if all the repairs are really absolutely necessary, can it be phased in over several years, should we get quotes from more contractors, etc, etc. Eventually there will be a vote of all residents, the proposal will win 65-35, and then you have to give them several months to raise the money, usually by taking out a loan against their apartments. Nothing is ever easy.
“Nothing is ever easy.”
Moving is easy.
I used to vacation in Florida at the beach and we bill for nice long walks every day, there are a lot of buildings Beachside that are vacant, boarded up. And eventually will be purchased and maybe reoccupied?
On the Curiosity stream channel there is a documentary on cement, along with documentaries on things like welding excetera, but the cement documentary was fascinating and I watched this last winter.
If the cement cracks, which all cement does eventually, if cement cracks moisture gets in and rebar rusts and corrodes and fails. America’s highways and bridges and buildings are coming to a point in time where they should be knocked down.
If you see rust underneath that bridge you just drove past there’s corrosion going on.
Another interesting show is the earth in a hundred years... or whatever it’s called, but it’s very interesting and in just a matter of just a few years plants will be popping up everywhere and breaking down the cement and asphalt we see today... if that were to it occur.
The key to cement not cracking is in using other materials and binding agents to keep the cement together longer. And that’s using things like spun glass and some other materials in the mix, but the real fix is not using a low carbon steel for reinforcements, and those options are not cost effective.
The Romans didn’t use reinforcement, they built arches which did not require reinforcement, such as what we require today with rebar. But there are limits to design with only arches and Roman technique.