msethhunter
Well-known member
Just came across it, haven't found a video to link yet, but damn.
Hotel collapse! HOOOOOLY SH*****
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Johndicezx9
Rolls with it...
Nola
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...fter-hard-rock-hotel-collapse/?outputType=amp
Posting, like journalism; who, what, where, when, why, and body count.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...fter-hard-rock-hotel-collapse/?outputType=amp
Posting, like journalism; who, what, where, when, why, and body count.
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Sad to hear that. :rip
Some video here: https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-orleans-hard-rock-hotel-collapses-injuries
Same video as John posted.
Some video here: https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-orleans-hard-rock-hotel-collapses-injuries
Same video as John posted.
msethhunter
Well-known member
Was trying. But I'm commuting to work right now with painfully slow internet.
Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
Informative post. Perfect 5/7
bruceflinch
I love Da Whores
:rose
Pointy elbows, would not bang.
RIP to the victims, the video looked pretty rough. I can't imagine anyone would want to stay there even after they rebuild.
Johndicezx9
Rolls with it...
Reminds me more of the crane collapse in Seattle last spring...
Archimedes
Fire Watcher
Alex, I'm gonna go with Chinese Steel for $100 please.
Mike95060
Work In Progress
***** PURE CONJECTURE TO FOLLOW *****
My wild ass guess is a construction timetable slipped and they were rushing to get back on schedule. I will not be surprised if concrete was not given the proper amount of time cure.
**** END OF PURE CONJECTURE *****
NorCalAthlete
O_o
Could be both.
Eldritch
is insensitive
Yeah, but it is NOLA, so I doubt there will a tremendous amount of time invested in reverse engineering the faults. Speaking of faults, building a City on top of a swamp probably makes it really hard to build super heavy structures.
The state of the streets and sidewalks in that part of the City is pretty bad from the obvious sinking and separation of material.
Adding to the conjecture:
It looks like podium slabs. Pre-stressed cables in concrete.
You see them all the time now on midrise buildings. No more steel beam, no more trusses. Once cured they remove the tension structure that secures the cables and release them so to speak.
I get the tech, but it still is so different I am not 100% they will stand the test of time like previous methods. They do reduce the clutter and give you a better clear height and actually make a decent ceiling in the new open ceiling environments. Everything that attaches to them has to be thought through.
You cut a cable and you can have something happen you don't want to although in discussing with a structural engineer he said you would have to cut quite a few to actually have the system fail.
Mike95060
Work In Progress
That was rather frightening.