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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
That is how it is supposed to be done. When the inspections are timely, and they find flaws too expensive to fix, move everyone out, and rip it down.
Hopefully whoever is responsible for the issues, be it the architect, builder or the contractors, someone made an very expensive mistake. Rather than risk a total collapse or even a partial collapse, tear it down and start over. I bet they do it right next time.
The Empire State Building a building virtually everyone knows and it is 90 years old. It even had a B-25 crash into it in 1945. That is a grand old building. Evidently built when quality was most important not speed or profit for the builder.
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In addition to lives lost, 130 units, 600k+ each, plus common space, that was an 80+ million dollar building.
After 40 years, I would think management/maintenance played a bigger part than architect/builder.