The other issue: their construction materials were guaranteed to rust and split when sitting in seawater for long enough. So yeah we northerners have high-rise buildings all over the country, but ours are built on bedrock which should be a solid base.
Not many cities are dumb enough to do what was done there. Sometimes when you try to fight a critical wrong from inside the situation/organization for too long you will find at a certain point that it is too late. But you must take that path if you can get no resolution. It is painful in many ways and can end your career. The reason I bring up Flint in relation to the Florida case is, because like in so many other disasters, it is critical for the people to understand that those who have knowledge of an issue/problem or are asked/expected to look the other way must not do so and must be ready to quit their job and blow the whistle.
#Ming nethery tv#
But listening to everybody on TV you would think that it all happened by just that piece of garbage governor they had and his "local city manager".
#Ming nethery professional#
This process includes professional engineers reviewing and concurring that environmental regulations have been reviewed, water quality impact has been examined etc. Any project of such magnitude would go through a typical process during design and implementation where various things are evaluated and approved or sent back for more evaluation. During the whole long process of reporting by cable news that ran 24/7 for months and months about "how could this happen" I never once saw any report about who were the engineers who signed off on the project reports and drawings. On a related note about how media will frustrate us by not talking about certain aspects of a disaster, I refer now to the Flint, Michigan water fiasco. Then I would start looking for connections to the condo owners/association/maintenance contractors and local and state officials. Among them would be what are the local or state regulations with respect to frequency of building inspection by authorities, what are the criteria used during the inspection, were any inspections skipped, did the fire marshal also inspect this property etc. In the US, it's greed which has the most power. Sometimes it's not the politics of regulations so much as the power of techniques employed to ensure that faceless investor's expectations get met which are our downfall. I believe that the negative affect of contractual scheduling pressure and the inability of the workforce to accomplish quality production under those high pressure conditions will prove to be the culprit here as well as in other disasters which are waiting to reveal themselves. This is a COMMON scenario in a building boom environment. All too typically the contractor will simply go bankrupt, leaving the project broken, critical path objectives incomplete with disastrous consequence for the quality of structural integrity. The morale of the entire workplace at this point can sink so that the workforce fails to perform, often due to the irregularity of payroll and/or sub-contractor commitments. It is NEVER financially viable to place another contractor in addition to your own on the same project, even if one could be found. Even if he did, he'd have no supervision for the crews. He has no additional personnel to throw at this. Project management's answer to this is to demand the contractor put on additional shifts or pay another contractor to perform the work in order to catch up. But due to weather or changes in project scope or a shortage of competent labor finds himself running behind schedule. I have been to construction progress meetings wherein a contractor is using 100% of his company's workforce. Often this takes precedence over any regard for the necessary qualifications or experience required for competence. The situation is common where a form carpenter would be promoted to foreman and a foreman promoted to superintendent out of the need for those positions to be filled due to a need to meet contract conditions.
South Florida is the poster child for such a building boom run rampant. In the building boom areas it's been a problem for much longer. It's been the case for at least 25 years all across the country. The US has a critical shortage of skilled construction labor. More often than people would feel comfortable admitting, construction quality suffers from the pressure of completion schedules. But like every other type of building construction, they are built under deadline conditions. Cast-in-place concrete buildings are expensive to build but they offer structural reliability unachievable from other techniques.
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