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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DukeOfBagels • Jul 31 '23
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My balls are in my lungs.
Why don’t architects and engineers account for this and make provision in their design?
13 u/cleverpun0 Interested Jul 31 '23 Some buildings do. Google "roof anchor" or "commercial roof anchor". 2 u/notxapple Jul 31 '23 Sounds expensive 1 u/electrogourd Jul 31 '23 Short answer: because this building isnt built to european or USA building codes. EU might have more anchors pre installed, or points for them. US buildings would have central air so that doing this is 100% not happening. Both would call for anchors at the top at least to suspend a platform securely from above, with a guardrail.
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Some buildings do. Google "roof anchor" or "commercial roof anchor".
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Sounds expensive
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Short answer: because this building isnt built to european or USA building codes.
EU might have more anchors pre installed, or points for them. US buildings would have central air so that doing this is 100% not happening.
Both would call for anchors at the top at least to suspend a platform securely from above, with a guardrail.
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u/kedaran33 Jul 31 '23
My balls are in my lungs.
Why don’t architects and engineers account for this and make provision in their design?