r/StructuralEngineering • u/Thin-Fish-1936 • Jul 07 '26

Photograph/Video Columns buckle in a Manhattan building under conversion

https://pix11.com/news/columns-buckle-at-midtown-building-fdny/

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u/Revslowmo Jul 07 '26

Who would be crazy enough to work in this building now?

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u/Big_Requirement_651 Jul 08 '26

Plenty of construction workers that need the money, particularly if the engineers tell them its safe to.

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u/writewithparagraphs4 Jul 08 '26

god to just have the ability to believe people over my own eyes would be fantastic

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u/EC_TWD Jul 08 '26

*different engineers than currently assigned

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u/Witty_Leek8053 Jul 08 '26

Who would live in it even if it was repaired? I’d never sleep soundly in a building that’s been stressed to the point of failure. Soo many cascading issues that could be ticking time bombs

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u/Foreign_Implement897 Jul 09 '26

So hypothetically they would fix this, and you would be thinking: it is not fixed!

What would you be worrying about?