Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site
40 points by danso
by danofsteel32
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This is a little pedantic but the pictures seem to show failing support columns not beams.
Beams are horizontal and columns are vertical.
by comrade1234
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They're adding a hunch of floors to an existing building - it was the old Pfizer headquarters and they want to turn it into apartments. Someone either didn't do the proper engineering study, or the original specs weren't accurate.
Figuring out who to blame will probably take years in court.
by pram
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I'm not an expert but those look like pretty wimpy columns? Kind of surprising, when I worked in a tower it had exposed concrete columns that were very thick in comparison
The USA is mostly empty space. Trying to force upwards in such an already dense area just doesn't make sense. We are not constrained the way singapore is.
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