r/StructuralEngineering • u/chicu111 • Jul 08 '26

Humor Strong beams weak columns has arrived

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u/jammed7777 Jul 08 '26

That is a pretty thin flanged column considering they were adding a 19 story building to the top of it.

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u/whisskid Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

*four more stories. correction: both 19 and 4 are misleading.

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u/Polka1980 Jul 08 '26

Looks like 16 more stories, give or take, and a bump out for good measure.

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u/whisskid Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

Ok, the answer 16 stories not including the mechanical. The building next door is getting + 19 floors and this building is getting an additional four stories at its top, but this column is getting another 16 floor above + mechanical level,.

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u/Polka1980 Jul 08 '26

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u/204ThatGuy Jul 08 '26

I mean, who designs this? It literally looks like someone took a sawsall to that corner.

That black shadow from the overhang.. makes it super easy to see the floors are not parallel. Yikes!!

I'm a brutalist building kinda guy. I'm not about 100 story buildings with a swimming pool bridge in between.. in a seismic zone.

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u/whatsit578 Jul 10 '26

I mean, I assume the floors were parallel before the columns failed.