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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
They are certainly talking about it. That's the first thing everybody talked about when they first heard what was happening. But so far no engineer has said it's at risk of collapse or a hazard to people or the buildings around it.
And if you read the post directly above your own, they have a pretty sensible plan to "fix" it so I say "just do it".
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I read it. Still not impressed. Engineers can say a lot. Are they going floor to floor and checking the buildings condition on a daily? no, or they taking samples from each floor and testing the reinforced concrete ? no. The engineers are essentially saying "well if we fix it, it should be fine" since this is uncharted territory on American soil, similar cases overseas, china, have all lead to collapse or tear downs. And now we are going to say drilling down to bed rock, some how lifting the billions of tons to get the building leveled will certainly do the job. GREAT. but the damage is still already done with the stress on the steal and concrete.
No matter what engineers say, this building will forever have problems until the day its replaced. Broken pipes, elevators not working, cracks in walls and floors, basement floors that looks like a disaster and so on. But these new drill holes should do the trick. If Vegas was skittish with a 25 story building not being safe hundreds of miles away from a major Faultline, sitting directly on/next to major fault lines in a much taller tower should make anyone clutch their pearls. Not to mention living/working in the towers around it.