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Old Posted Oct 22, 2013, 4:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Hairysun View Post
I don't know if anybody here is a civil engineer, but is the ground in Austin stable enough for a supertall? Manhattan has all that nice granite to keep things in place, but we've got a bunch of soft limestone. I don't know if that factor alone is enough to preclude a supertall, but it might make things more expensive.
The ground beneath Houston is not the best though Houston has two supertalls.
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