TEOTWAWKI wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2410972/Walkie-Talkie-building-Walkie-Scorchie-skyscraper-firm-scaffolding-protect-nearby-shops.html
'Walkie Scorchie' engineers put scaffolding up covered in sheets along London street to stop sun's rays reflected off skyscraper from starting fires
Sunlight reflected from skyscraper has caused heat damage below
Developers today due to put up temporary screen as emergency measure
Business owners say glare has started fires and caused damage
Architect had similar problems with building in Las Vegas
I just read the whole article, good grief, it is the SAME ARCHITECT who designed both buildings. SOMEONE is an IDIOT.
You know, you would think that ONE or two of the engineers would look at the design, in effect a gigantic curved mirror and not say...hey, that looks like one of those heat concentrating mirror fields for solar energy.
I don't know the solution for the one in Las Vegas. Plastic parts on cars would just melt the heat was so intense.
The Citicorp building in New York was a unique design built on 4 massive monoliths with the steel frame on the exterior and shaped in a series of "X's" forming the exterior frame. They used wind tunnels of the city to test the strength and design of the building. Somewhere between the architects drawings and the actual construction a small detail was changed. Where the "X's" crossed were supposed to be welded joints. Instead, they were bolted together. The result was more "give" than the joints would have had with welded joints.
Some years later a huge storm (something like Sandy) was going up the coast and some engineers brought out the plans to check the wind tunnel results. The huge wind would have come from a different direction than the prevailing and usual strongest winds. Since it was bolted, instead of welded, it was determined the building could tip over. The storm went out to sea but the result was tens of millions in retro fitting taking off the exterior skin to weld those joints.
It's probably still in court.
Here's another massive error. They forgot the elevator in the top part of the building.
Jennifer Mattson August 10, 2013 16:54
Spain's 47-story InTempo skyscraper built without elevatorInTempo was meant to be a striking symbol of prosperity amid the country's financial crisis.
The builders of the InTempo skyscraper in Benidorm, Spain, what was supposed to be a striking symbol of prosperity amid the country's financial crisis,
forgot to include a working elevator.It had been slated to be the tallest residential block in the European Union.
El País reported the 47-story building has been plagued by construction and economic woes since the project began, calling InTempo "an incompetence of high stature."
Read more: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/spain/130810/47-story-intempo-skyscraper-built-without-elevator
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