Popular Post Ajax Posted January 2, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2019 On 12/29/2018 at 8:20 AM, sandyk said: In other words : " Trust me, I am an Engineer/Physician/Politician and I know what's best for you ! " All 3 groups have two things in common. They are human, and they all make mistakes from time to time. Recently an aeroplane dived into the sea. Recently a 4 months old , almost 400 apartments high rise block in Sydney started to crack and become in need of urgent repair, not because of shoddy workmanship, but an engineering mistake .All residents have been forced to vacate for an expected 10 days while engineers investigate. Hi Alex, I have real problem with what you have written here. In both cases there has been no "official report" on either why the plane crashed or why the building has cracked. With regard to the building you wrote "Recently a 4 months old, almost 400 apartments high rise block in Sydney started to crack and become in need of urgent repair, not because of shoddy workmanship, but an engineering mistake. All residents have been forced to vacate for an expected 10 days while engineers investigate. Exactly, while engineers investigate. You have no evidence it was not due to shoddy workmanship. Guy Templeton, the president of WSP in Australia & New Zealand, who have been the independent engineers engaged to investigate the issue said that “[It was] the connection between prefabricated and in situ poured concrete that was damaged on Level 10, “Two of these areas, both on level four, show evidence of some but lesser damage.” I am a civil engineer and spent about 10 years on building sites as a site engineer, responsible for taking the consulting engineers design and ensuring it was correctly interpreted by the subcontractors, and I can tell you from experience when you are joining two materials together on a site, one being from factory and another from on site construction, it is normally always poor workmanship or lack of site supervision. However, without inspecting the work personally I really don't know but I do know you are making provocative and inflammatory statements, which is a habit of yours and is helpful to nobody, especially while having a civil debate. So stop it. As an engineer it was reinforced to me time and time again to understand what is happening. Why are you doing this? Is there a better more cost effective way? Is the factor of safety you are allowing sufficient. Think for yourself. Think for yourself. Think for yourself. What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? Does it make sense? Does it make sense? Does it make sense? I have only read a few of the initial comments in this thread and I really object to being stereotyped - IAM AN INDIVIDUAL - I don't belong "solely" to any group, I have many personality traits, which if taken in isolation appear conflicting. I'm a surfer (therefore an environmentalist) I'm a business man (therefore a capitalist) I'm a music lover (therefore an audiophile) I am a humanitarian (therefore a socialist but I vote conservative, but maybe not much longer), my best friend is a woman (my wife), my nieces are women (therefore I am a feminist but I loath the inference that all men are bastards), I am an engineer (therefore I am an objectivist), I am always trying to improve the sound of my system by changing gear, adding subs, moving speakers, installing wall treatments (therefore I am a subjectivist) etc etc Stop with the finger pointing and lazy categorisation and stereotyping of individuals into groups. We are all individuals and are made up of a lot of different beliefs, many of which are conflicting. sarvsa, Ralf11, kumakuma and 8 others 5 5 1 LOUNGE: Mac Mini - Audirvana - Devialet 200 - ATOHM GT1 Speakers OFFICE : Mac Mini - Audirvana - Benchmark DAC1HDR - ADAM A7 Active Monitors TRAVEL : MacBook Air - Dragonfly V1.2 DAC - Sennheiser HD 650 BEACH : iPhone 6 - HRT iStreamer DAC - Akimate Micro + powered speakers Link to comment
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