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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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Empire State Building was i beam and rivets real steel framed
and built on granite solid rock
local condo's are concrete and rebar
built on a sand bar