BugBash'26: Day 2 (opens in new tab)
Ok, finally getting sometime to put my butt down to write about day 2 of BugBash.Why do so few buildings fall down?Brian Potter, Senior Infrastructure Fellow @ Institute for Progress, Author of Construction Physics newsletter.Buildings rarely collapse. The rate of major structural failing is between 1/100K to 1/ 1 million. (This is how I know this is a serious statistic: it is an interval.) Why don't more buildings fall down?There are some technical reasons to it: buildings are simple stuctur...
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