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The Citicorp Building Repairs: A Tale of Engineering and Ethics

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mouser:
Nice long entertaining account of the secret mistakes and repairs in the construction of a skyskraper, and lessons in ethics for all of us who build things..

What's an engineers worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed--and hurricane season is approaching...

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http://www.predesign.org/citicorp1.htm




from http://www.gadgetopia.com/

mrainey:
That's very interesting.  A lesson for all of us.

cemole:
Good find mouser :Thmbsup: I really enjoyed it.

Darwin:
Thanks Mouser! That was a great read - and spurred a happy hour of googling and wikipeida surfing...

MerleOne:
Funnily enough, this story has apparently been used for the scenario of a TV show episode, namely "Numb3rs".  It's on http://www.tv.com/numb3rs/structural-corruption/episode/385365/summary.html.

Thanks for mentioning the real stor(e)y  ;)

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