On Tue, 9 May 2017 19:50:31 +0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded
wrote:

In rec.woodworking, wrote:
Tall buildings are designed to flex, some more than others. SF codes,
thus designs, are way different than NY codes.
...
Remember, any old fool can build a building or bridge that'll stand
up. It takes an engineer to design one that barely stands. ;-)

Yeah, there's that. Then there's the fool that creates a design that can
stand, but won't stay put. Today's news:

Joe Montana sues San Francisco sinking high-rise developer
http://www.ktvu.com/news/253442519-story

General background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millen...(San_Francisco)

Elijah
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the Millennium company has big buildings all over the world

Yeah, I've read some about that over the last couple of years. Seems
there was more than some engineering f-ups in that one. A good bit of
fraud, it seems, too.