1979. It's been a year since the completion of an innovative Manhattan skyscraper you, a structural engineer, helped design. A series of circumstances make you go back over your calculations, and...
1979. It's been a year since the completion of an innovative Manhattan skyscraper you, a structural engineer, helped design. A series of circumstances make you go back over your calculations, and you find there have been mistakes. The building could topple in the next 16-year storm. What would you do? What is the moral way to correct it, and what will happen to your professional career? This is the well-told, true story thriller of calculation, engineering, and a ticking time bomb in the form of a skyscraper. Those with engineering degrees will enjoy all the technical details that are included.
1979. It's been a year since the completion of an innovative Manhattan skyscraper you, a structural engineer, helped design. A series of circumstances make you go back over your calculations, and you find there have been mistakes. The building could topple in the next 16-year storm. What would you do? What is the moral way to correct it, and what will happen to your professional career? This is the well-told, true story thriller of calculation, engineering, and a ticking time bomb in the form of a skyscraper. Those with engineering degrees will enjoy all the technical details that are included.