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Whenarewethere


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A building near me about a year ago just as I was walking past, on the other side of the road, had a poorly controlled glass roof frame structure situation with a crane. It was just shear luck that nothing serious happened.

 

'The incident occurred on the construction site of a building for the School of Design and the Built Environment.'

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-13/curtin-university-roof-collapses-reports-casualties/12762640



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Yes this was a tragic accident

Hopefully they will find the cause of the collapse, to ensure that it does not happen again



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Tomorrow will be the 50th anniversary of the West Gate Bridge disaster:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-11/west-gate-bridge-collapse-haunts-survivors-50-years-on/12739324

Years ago my engineering colleagues told me that their university medals were struck from the metal salvaged from one of the bridge disasters. I can't remember which one, but it could have been the Tacoma bridge.

 

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I got just about everything wrong.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/iron-ring



-- Edited by dorian on Thursday 15th of October 2020 11:17:52 AM

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