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gorjusborg a day ago

Does anyone here have any knowledge of how something like this gets resolved?

Anon1096 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Most likely the building gets stabilized and then anyone involved gets embroiled in lawsuits and it stays standing half finished for years. One Seaport is a famous recent example of an under construction skyscraper getting halted for structural issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/161_Maiden_Lane

dlcarrier a day ago | parent | next [-]

They have something like that in San Francisco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/301_Mission_Street) but they key to finishing it is to not tell anyone it's crooked until after you've sold all of the units.

IAmBroom 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As flatpandas[0] points out, this might in fact be the best possible practical outcome.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820971

onlypassingthru a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, sometimes gravity resolves the problem for you.

SilverElfin a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Given all the bad press around things like the millennium tower, I think once you have an issue like this, the building is done. No one will want to live there. And given structural problems with load bearing beams, I would expect the building has to be demolished. But maybe they can demolish it top down partially and rebuild up from the compromised area if the city and engineers deem that safe.

fiatpandas a day ago | parent [-]

Knocking down a building like this will be a huge pain, extremely expensive, and very dangerous. I think you can assume the developers will try desperately to retrofit the building before demo. There’s good precedence for this even in New York City. Look into the Citicorp case study.

ErroneousBosh a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Tie every helicopter you can find to the roof, gas the bent bit off, haul it away and drop it somewhere?

They'll likely shore it up with hydraulic props - probably going through the floor and ceiling to floor slabs above and below - to stabilise it, and then start demolishing the building bit by bit.

kylehotchkiss a day ago | parent [-]

When you run the mental model of picking up a building with a bunch of surplus Hueys, do they not all collide together once they start bearing weight?

singleshot_ a day ago | parent | next [-]

“spreader bar”

ErroneousBosh 14 hours ago | parent [-]

But not one made out of the same stuff as those beams, they're like chocolate.

ErroneousBosh a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Not if you make the strings different lengths.

hagbard_c a day ago | parent [-]

In that case the helicopters lower in the pecking order will chop off the strings for the higher ones. I thing seagulls is a better idea, if it worked for a giant peach it should work for a building. Plenty of those around and they'll work for peanuts.

tonyedgecombe a day ago | parent [-]

Balloons should do it.