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0 pointss53004y ago0 comments

The 1978 Citigroup Center engineering crisis is a good teaching tool. The chair of my Uni's Mechanical Engineering department has gotten a good amount of engineering colleges (mainly Mechanical and Civil) to use it as an example/study for students first semester.

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aaron6954y ago

What did you learn from the Citigroup Center story?

For me a good story is when a friend built a house the design didn't fit the actual plot, so it was changed by the builders.

One of the final problems was an overhang on the upper roof went over the sky light.

Lessons -

Contrary to common beliefs land plots are not well known.

Engineers/Designers work off incomplete information.

Problems cascade to strange places.

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