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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
Coincidentally I just watched this video explaining the walkway collapse two days ago.
I love living in a condo but I wouldn't do it if I wasn't on the board making sure we kept up on building maintenance that prevents this kind of thing.
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I remember my old physics teacher at high school explaining how the history of civil engineering is basically just a process of learning through disaster, that Bridge design in particular is just a succesion of envelope pushing designs, higher longer bridges followed by grim failures and death followed by better designs