Posted on 12/24/2018 7:23:03 AM PST by DFG
Thousands of people living near Sydney's Olympic Park are facing an uncertain Christmas Eve after residents of a newly opened apartment building reported unsettling noises, generating fears of a possible collapse and prompting evacuations Monday.
Emergency responders were called to the Opal Tower on the city's west side across the street from the site of the 2000 Sydney Olympics after residents reported hearing "cracking noises" during the morning, New South Wales Police said in a statement.
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The Leaning Tower of Sydney. It leans the other way.
“The key thing here is that it’s only been ‘open’ for about a hundred days. I watched some fire safety interviews on this from Sydney, and they hinted that it’ll be at least ten days before a real assessment can be released. A 1 to 2 cm lean has been detected since the noise.”
Well, San Francisco has one of those “tiltin’ Hiltons” too, so it makes sense, since SF and Sydney are “sister cities!”
<><> A resident was hitting golf balls in her $4million Millenium Tower apartment. The golf balls always landed in the same corner. Conclusion: the bldg was tilting.
<><> Sometime later, picture windows were cracking. Conclusion: engineer said the bldg’s facade was separating from the structure itself.
California will still have it’s high speed taxes.
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I heard that California is considering a tax on Texting.
One would have thought CA learned a lesson after the 1906 quake that killed an untold number in the thousands. Many lessons later and in 1989 a hwy collapsed and buildings built on fill/soft sand, surprise!, fell down.
Per above, 51 of the 392 units have been declared unsafe.
Forum thread with some local opinions:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/a91wit/opal_tower_structural_damage_sydney_olympic_park/
***Best to stay in nothing more than two stories tall.***
Wise advice - the possible worst experience is being trapped in an elevator - and when it’s ‘out of service’ -having to walk up or down more than 2 floors. (carrying groceries & trash;)
Not settling on the 10th floor. More like a weld broke.
UPDATE:Multi-agency operation at a Sydney Olympic Park residential tower
Post-tension cables letting go? Not expected on new construction but quite impressive when it happens on older buildings and you are inside.
> “Update, some residents have been allowed to go back, but not the folks in the 51 units declared unsafe...”
I imagine it is the bottom 51 units.
That’s what Hank Johnson blamed it on.
Actually, maybe they did sell all the harbor-side units first.
Of course it does. It's in the Southern Hemisphere.
It’s either Chinese steel or a diverse engineering firm.
Won't the top units crash into the bottom units?
Sounds like a footings problem.
> “Won’t the top units crash into the bottom units?”
That is not a bureaucrats problem.
The Hotel New World collapse (killing 33) was foretold a day earlier by columns cracking. However, these tells were not correctly identified at the time as foretelling the collapse, and the building was not evacuated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Hotel_New_World
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