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Sinking building built on a swamp
my home town "engineering disaster". I believe it would have been the 2nd tallest building in the area
Sinking building built on a swamp - WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge, Louisiana News, Weather, Sports
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bummer!
i would love to see some foundation plans..just to see what they went with. this sucks to see a public entity kicked in the nuts with funding being such a hot topic.
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2nd tallest - at what looks like 3 stories?
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"It's very devastating. It's like a death in the family," said Stansbury. "This is an anomaly. They have no idea what could have happened."
Ummm, maybe that they built on swampland without adequately compensating?
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I've been to Morgan City and spent some time with Johnco. The entire area is a swamp.
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They probably knew this was going to happen and then blame it on the BP oil spill. Or the local republicans will blame Mary Landrue. Or it could be Obama's fault. Or Bobby Jindals fault for budget cuts. Or it could be racially motivated....no one will take the blame on this, unless they don't payoff the right local politician. Then they'll pin it on some poor innocent fool.
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Gee, you gotta wonder why all the houses are on pilings down there....
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Louisiana.....umm, do you think someone got paid off?
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"and they told me off camera that they have no comment"
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Ring, ring....hello, E&O carrier? I gots me a little problem down here...
Shame, I know both the contractor and the architect. Both good firms. The geotch engineer will get the blame...
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they drove what looked like 40-50' pilings but there's nothing but mud/slop around here. they've been working on that building for maybe 1 1/2-2 years. one day it just dropped
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this way it will not be destroyed in the next hurricane
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They just need to build 3 more...
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Who ever did the soil testing or deviated from it, better have insurance...
Anybody notice the "Foundation Repair Co" at the bottom of the page.  
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I'm a geotech. Five feet of settlement in one day must mean bearing capacity failure. But if it was on deep pilings, it's surprising. Of course, I don't know enough about the job to say anything useful, except that the geotech on this job better have good insurance. And ideas for a new career.
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I'm not a geotech but I am in the bidness of building BIG things and we drill lots of pilings, down to bedrock, to build anything heavy.......or if we just want it to last. Lots of 'glacial fill" here. Seriously. If you want to building something semi-permanent, or heavy, then you hafta drill lots of deep holes and fill them with rebar and concrete.
And that's the extent of my geotechnik understanding. Nothing is built on the "ground."
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