“The Owner chose the site.”
You’re saying the structure is within ordinary tolerances, and no other tolerances were specified in the contract, so the designer is off the hook?
Hope the next launcher (mentioned in the article) will be better designed.
Wonder why they didn’t build the 1st launcher to accommodate the larger version of the rocket’s second stage?
I am not saying that specifically. I am saying that the designer, and then the contractor, are stuck with time, location, and cost considerations that the Owners is able to give them for his own reasons.
See my reply to another at #59.
We often need a lot of forensic investigations and sometimes even courts to settle issues like this as far as “responsibility.”
When the tower in Pisa began to lean, I am sure that it was said, well this will soon be on the ground and forgotten. Sometimes first impressions are wrong.