I’ve been fascinated about the building remodel in NYC that has experienced support structure failures. Guess this a prime example of the difficulties in converting commercial buildings into condo apartments. Some engineering screwed up it seems. How does that happen these days ?
Can’t imagine anyone wanting to ever live in that building now, even if the shoring up work is successful.
Yea I just don’t know how you could be confident it is fine, unless you just didn’t know.
I’ve been following this, too. I don’t think the conversion is the issue - it’s adding additional structure on top of an old building. Just seems like a terrible idea.
Right, the added floor loads surely didn’t help.
Still, you’d think they would have pre-construction analysis done and know the load
bearing aspects. Definitely sounds like an
engineering fubar, unless the construction company used out of spec materials or didn’t
execute correctly.
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