Shocking indeed!
Oh for sure. Not just that one, there's been several catastrophic builds. Typically during annual refreshers they like to remind us of past mistakes and current deaths and we discuss how to avoid repeating it.
Not sure why so many people believe we historically get anything right on the first try.
Or even the second or third try... Lol, I was just explaining fracture critical bridges and how we have thousands of them just the other day.
For sure. You've heard expansion joint yeah? Parking garages, buildings, any structure standing pretty much on the west coast has an expansion joint every 100'ish feet. For when the earth rolls and stuff. Skyscrapers are all built on air ride nowadays, spring support is obsolete. Bridges are another structure that require a designed collapse method in case of an emergency like, well, earth rolling. Things like that dude are typically foe earthquake preparedness.
Thanks for the reblog Jethro.
Speaking of cracks and first times, not to be confused with Millenium Tower but the tallest building in The Bay cracks windows on occasion.