Audi Garage collapses
Discussion
darren f said:
Weird- the view of the cars through the window is quite surreal, almost like an 'artists impression' produced by Photoshop 
Real enough for the staff involved though- I suspect there's a Structural Engineer scrabbling round checking his PI insurance in fine detail as we speak.
Thats going to be a fun claim to sort out. Im assuming the customers can reject a damaged and repaired car so they would be total losses. Perhaps claw something back in slavage. Real enough for the staff involved though- I suspect there's a Structural Engineer scrabbling round checking his PI insurance in fine detail as we speak.
sugerbear said:
as this is PH, it will be down to the use of cheap eastern European builders.
There is a prevalence right across the construction industry today to use large numbers of unskilled or lowly skilled and improperly supervised workers in the belief that they'll be better value than more highly skilled and experienced operatives, an "it'll be allright" mindset; whether thats party to the case here or not remains to be be seen but very little would surprise me.Those in charge think they can "rule-change" their way out of poorly skilled work rather than address the underlying issue with ever more red tape and silly rules, for example mandating fireproof consumer units to address the massive increase in consumer unit fires, all things that'll be largely ignored by those most responsible for it's implementation!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-280804...
darren f said:
Weird- the view of the cars through the window is quite surreal, almost like an 'artists impression' produced by Photoshop Real enough for the staff involved though- I suspect there's a Structural Engineer scrabbling around in his adult nappy checking his PI insurance in fine detail as we speak.
There, fixed it for you.... Real enough for the staff involved though- I suspect there's a Structural Engineer scrabbling around in his adult nappy checking his PI insurance in fine detail as we speak.
Failure mode could be several things not related to design, if post tensioned the anchors may not be secured and have crept, reinforcement for shear may have been missed at the supports, top and bottom mats could be fixed incorrectly.
If post tensioned maybe they drilled through the tendons during fit out.
Could be dodgy Chinese reinforcement, crap or poorly placed concrete.
Did the slab fail or was it columns/beams?
None of the above influenced by carrinying out lots of NCR close outs.
With euro code design I bet you could have filled it bumper to bumper!
If post tensioned maybe they drilled through the tendons during fit out.
Could be dodgy Chinese reinforcement, crap or poorly placed concrete.
Did the slab fail or was it columns/beams?
None of the above influenced by carrinying out lots of NCR close outs.
With euro code design I bet you could have filled it bumper to bumper!
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