Recent content by Keith_1

This is what title insurance is for. All she has to do is file a quite title action. If the developer pushes this, she can sue for encroachment and demand that the property be restored to its original state. The Developer is SOL. If I was her I would tell the developer to pound sand. The...

I feel bad saying this, but the bridge failed perfectly.

As a Developer and VP of a GC I have installed nothing but hot dipped galvanized on exposed areas in coastal construction in South Florida, maintaining coatings goes a long way to prevent costly mediation. I have had subcontractors try to spray paint it with cold once or twice, they never did it...

Corrosion and subsequent failure of unbounded PT tendons due to the use of salt to deice used to be a big problem in northern parking garages, but that was a long time ago.

As a super for a GC I would never tell them when I was going to pull a sample, in my experience after you make them tear down a sheerwall or column or two the shell guys get it into their heads not to add a bunch of water. Once everyone understands that they can either do it right or do it over...

Most Elevators in this type of building just had a battery with a relay that would return them to the lobby in case of the loss of power.

The failure of this structure is nothing more than having unqualified persons in charge of a midrise construction, nothing more and nothing less. You do not have to be a PE, GC or a AIA member to see that this structure was in trouble for years. I don't think the owners should have gotten a...

It is a retaining wall with sheet piles it is not structura. Damn non of you have actually designed or built anything.

In the photo that epoxybot posted there appears to be at least 3/4" of conduit running thru deck / beam connection. Does anyone know what deck system they used? I'am starting to think that this building has incurable problems that would not matter if were constructed on s correct foundation. I...

Epoxybot, that is a really scary photo Trying to pour that with everything tied is close to physically impossible even with a great plasticizer mix, that is alot of steel to get the aggregate through. That crack is getting close to the bars and that is not a good thing, because that beam...

Here is the timeline, 10 years ago there was a problem that everyone new about but were told it would be 10 million to fix it, which the Board thought would result in a few hundred dollars in increased fees, and that little sum posed a threat to their little fiefdom, so instead of loosing the...

[highlight #F57900]I am from the land of clay soils and a monolithic concrete slab poured with reinforced thicker edges is common place here to support residential wall loads. I agree a 'Grade Beam' would have been a better solution to transfer the wall loads to the piles, but Champlain Towers...

thermopile, the one thing that you missed was that 12" section is called out at an elevation of 2' 2" which above whatever the slab elevation is. It really does not matter what the purpose of that 12" section because it does not transfer to the foundation. 2 is not 0,learn how to read a plan. I...

NuleDuke, so you have pile 12' on center, that shows nothing in relation to the perimeter wall. I actually know the order of construction, so I know that the sheet piles were installed before the piles, and I also know that there is not a pile under that wall.

thermopile, There is no such thing as a "down turned slab" if it where it would be a footer or a grade beam. Slabs are on the ground, decks are suspended. There is an 8" wall running from the West corner of the building to the East corner with #5 bars horizontal and vertical @ 12", and a...