Saturday 16 June 2018

San Fran’s “vulnerable” skyline: Buildings most likely to collapse if the Big One hits

A new government study has released a list of buildings not to be in, if a magnitude-eight earthquake hits California. Within the San Francisco area, the 39 steel-framed “vulnerable” high-rises house prominent office buildings and hotels, among other tenants, and were built using a so-called defective construction method, according to the New York Times. The questionable technique began being used in the mid-1980s when the building code was altered to prescribed stiffer joints, requiring steel […]



source https://therealdeal.com/2018/06/16/san-frans-vulnerable-skyline-buildings-most-likely-to-collapse-if-the-big-one-hits/

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