SEATTLE - A nine-year-old high-rise near downtown Seattle with hundreds of residents and dozens of retailers will soon be nothing but a hole in the city's skyline.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/90554479.html
I'll be real curious to see what it gets replaced with. And I bet that hole in the skyline won't last long.
Yes - sounds fishy.... but then as I recall, Seattle smells fishy..... [waiting]
I would like to know more but not much is mentioned about the cause of the failure. ???
This is big. A 9 year old high rise is condemned.
You can be sure the law suits will be going in many directions here.
Sounds like pre or post tensioned cables used in the structural concrete are corroding----may be due to bad steel or a problem with the concrete----if the sand was salt contaminated it could have results like that. There were examples of that on the Oregon coast several years ago when a contractor thought beach sand would be real handy to make his mix. Some highway bridges they built had a similar short life span.
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