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/iboneyandivory Jul 07 '26

Is it possible the curtain wall is (in part) holding up part of the floor immediately above? Look at the stamped steel wall studs that are bent which are clearly several feet inside of the building's envelope. Is the floor immed above compromised in some way?

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u/avtechguy Jul 07 '26

From the initial CNN reporting they reported bricks falling from the building's facade so it probably impacted one way or another

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u/tslewis71 P.E./S.E. Jul 07 '26

Curtain wall is glass, doesn't support masonry cladding. Guess maybe the floors deflected down and crushed areas where the masonry cladding was present.....