This puts any of our challenges into perspective

[saveasteading]

The building failing in Manhattan. A failed column and lots of temporary support.

The developer describes it as a "construction mishap".

More accurately it looks like  a total bodge without site scrutiny.

 

Is that a steel column,  made from bits, with a ticky tacky plate pinned on as a junction?

It appears to have failed at top, middle and bottom (classic year one engineering fundamentals), which suggests to me... be very scared about the whole building.

 

 

[ToughButterCup]

Ahhhh, thats nuffin ..... 🙃

 

 

OR

 

 

Take your pick.

 

32 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

... which suggests to me... be very scared about the whole building.

 

Exactly, @saveasteading

I'm so glad  - in retrospect - that our two disasters were dealt with by a properly professional company. Because  they discovered more incompetence and rectified it - and here's the kicker ... for less than the original company were attempting to charge me. They were going to take me to court for non-payment, until I sent them the security video evidence.

 

Its an ill wind that blows nobody any good 

 

To your point  @saveasteading: I wonder how the repair in the first post was financed? 

[saveasteading]

3 hours ago, ToughButterCup said:

I wonder how the repair in the first post was financed? 

I think it said that the City was doing emergency work, because bits are falling off it into the road, and the whole thing could collapse.

Imagine the desperate shenanigans taking place to divest the company responsible from wherever the money is.

 

Meanwhile in Exeter we have a £31M school that's going to be demolished, having never been occupied because of the threat of collapse.  The companies have gone bust, so the state pays more than twice.

subsidence, missing bolts..... so who knows what else.

Does nobody supervise these days?

 

3 years since built, so I'm surprised to have only just heard of /noticed the story.

 

[Super_Paulie]

2 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

I think it said that the City was doing emergency work, because bits are falling off it into the road, and the whole thing could collapse.

Imagine the desperate shenanigans taking place to divest the company responsible from wherever the money is.

 

Meanwhile in Exeter we have a £31M school that's going to be demolished, having never been occupied because of the threat of collapse.  The companies have gone bust, so the state pays more than twice.

subsidence, missing bolts..... so who knows what else.

Does nobody supervise these days?

 

3 years since built, so I'm surprised to have only just heard of /noticed the story.

 

like the Gateshead flyover in Newcastle, they are demolishing the entire thing.

And closer to home, the National Glass Centre in Sunderland is about to get demolished, 25 years after it was built, pretty pathetic.