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This should be of interest to more than a few people here.

Suffolk Construction’s high-tech nerve center lets it monitor projects nationwide

The newly opened Smart Lab is the cornerstone of a $60 million renovation underway at Suffolk Construction’s headquarters, a block off Massachusetts Avenue in Roxbury. This high-tech nerve center gives Fish and his executives updates and financial data on key construction sites, from an apartment development in Los Angeles to a rail, retail, amd residential complex in Miami to the Wynn casino rising near the Mystic River in Everett.
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I've driven past that Suffolk office before and its pretty impressive especially given its surroundings. Its a really blighted area and then boom there's this shiny building in the middle of it. Not sure if that'd be my first choice for a headquarters but its cool
 
Suffolk 83 said:
I've driven past that Suffolk office before and its pretty impressive especially given its surroundings. Its a really blighted area and then boom there's this shiny building in the middle of it. Not sure if that'd be my first choice for a headquarters but its cool
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It wasn't their first choice either. They were trying to build a new HQ in the seaport and for whatever reason it didn't happen, So they just decided to add on to their existing building.
 
Question on some residential architecture...my wife an I were driving through Worcester when I noticed this house, and wondered why the roof overhangs so much. I've driven by it a hundred times but never picked up on it: https://goo.gl/maps/oMNRygKHoCr
 
Only a guess, but it was probably a triple decker with three front porches, the porches rotted and/or collapsed and the owner didn't want to pay to replace them. That was probably the cheapest option.
 
You look at the bones of 3 deckers, and you just have to wonder at the horrors wrought by Johns Manville and subsequently by vinyl siding.
 
That was a 28 floor government-owned tower demolished to make way for a 5 floor office building and 1100 car garage. So KY apparently didn't take care of this tower (built 1972) and basically let it rot? And now it's to be replaced by a grossly undersized building and a gigantic garage. Some great govt stewardship and planning going on there!
 
Brad Plaid said:
That was a 28 floor government-owned tower demolished to make way for a 5 floor office building and 1100 car garage. So KY apparently didn't take care of this tower (built 1972) and basically let it rot? And now it's to be replaced by a grossly undersized building and a gigantic garage. Some great govt stewardship and planning going on there!
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Oh I totally agree with you that this is ridiculous, and wasn't defending them in the least. I was solely commenting on the graceful choreography of a well executed implosion. But, yeah, wtf is up with this!
 
Arlington said:
I wonder if the support column on the canal side tilted out (because there was no balancing span pushing back.
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Wonder what they will say about the tilted skyscraper if this falls during an earthquake in San Fran. Must have been mother nature.
 
datadyne007 said:
I'm guessing that the stay cables were not preloaded correctly and thus compromised the bridge's equilibrium which suddenly thrust the concrete into tension, hence the fail.

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My understanding is that the cable-stays were not yet in place (there was still a lot of construction to be done, apparently).

Also I've see speculation that there was some sort of tensioning work being done at the time of the failure, but it not well-sourced.
 
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