Turkish Building Collapses
Turkish Building Collapses
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RE: Turkish Building Collapses
RE: Turkish Building Collapses
Another good example of public ignorance about our profession.
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RE: Turkish Building Collapses
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GOO PURDUE!!!
when did you graduate?
BSCE - '01
MSCE - '03
besides.....you'd be surprised how many people know dr. sozen.
RE: Turkish Building Collapses
Unfortunately, there is also a type of construction that was referred to as "midnight construction" by my engineer friend, where unpermitted multi-story buildings were built quickly on land with questionable titles. Apartments are pre-sold. Once the building was well underway, the questions of ownership and adeqauacy were brought up. The disputes end up being resolved and the land titles are "clarified". The costruction almost seems to start at midnight and is very quick. It also seems to follow the election cycles according to my friend.
An interesting item on Istanbul - The History channel currently is running and re-running a series of shows on underground construction. The Istanbul show is very good and accurately describes how the city is built on top of 2500 years of seismic resistant EXISTING structures and civilizations below. There are many multi-story building built 20 to 40 feet above the cisterns the Romans built. You can still go down into the structurall sound cisterns and see the columns that are supporting the roads, streets and buildings above. they also built 40 - 50' over an arena many times the size of the collosium that still is accessible. - Good insight into the great engineering from the past.
Dick
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