Reply #11: build new vs repair [View All]

[sweetheart]

Construction technology has improved incredibly with computer innovation, that
repairing a structure can actually cost more than building a new one, and
when foundations are cracked and stuff, its a nightmare repair job.

Its a construction maxim, that a building will last as long as its foundation,
that when the slab cracks, the finest structure will collapse, but on a
solid slab, even a flimsy structure can stand forever. After seeing the seizmic
damage of the foundation bathtub of the trade center towers, and knowing the
proximity of the DB building, the foundations would have to be cracked and
shifted, plus the mold and potentially asbestos which would involve paying a
crew huge sums to replace the entire building's interior surely much more
expensive than a demolish/rebuild.