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Originally Posted by Empire
I am quite sure the columns and foundation footings were sized for an expansion and additional compressive load. You cannot add 19 floors to a structure that was designed to be 2 floors. Maritime Centre built in structural capacity so that 8 floors were able to be added and this is what should have happened with the existing QEII Health Sciences Centre. Maybe for some new builds extra structural bearing capacity could be written into the development so the building could add additional floors in future?
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I could be wrong, but my impression was that they were building new columns down through the existing structure.
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