Who signed off on those drawings? Wile E. Coyote (Sooper Genius)
perchance?
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John W Reames
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On May 28, 2010, at 14:50, Donald Snook <dsn...@mtsqh.com> wrote:
Wilton wrote: "Architects usually hire engineers to make their dream
"child" work."
We are working on a case right now where the engineers and the
architects both had their heads up their respective asses. The City
of Wichita passed a bond to rebuild/renovate some schools. One of
the schools was built in 1928. The architect drew up plans to
expand the school and add a whole other wing. In order to level the
floors when the new wing was added to the old, they had to build up
the concrete floor almost 8 inches. Rather than using foam or some
other lighter method, they poured 8 inches of concrete on three
levels/floors. As you might imagine three levels of 8 inches of
concrete weighs a lot. A few years later, the elementary school
starting collapsing. Luckily, the kids were moved out of the old
portion of the school before one of the first floor walls collapsed
into a classroom.
The project had contractors, architects, a team of engineers, and
other experts and no one thought this was a bad idea.
Donald H. Snook
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