Jonny5
Senior Member
Wondering if anyone has thoughts on what happened to the Opal Tower Condominium building in Sydney Australia? It's a brand new 38 floor tower. On the 24th some residents of the building reported hearing loud "banging and screeching" noises and some cracks starting to show up on internal walls.
The fire department elected to evacuate the building, but later decided on only a partial evacuation. Apparently, they determined an internal concrete wall was failing but the columns supporting the tower were not affected.
There's a lot of confusion. Most involved in the reporting have zero expertise in building engineering and are using conflicting terms.
Obviously something went very wrong with the construction of at least one floor of the tower, but what really is the reason?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46671811
The fire department elected to evacuate the building, but later decided on only a partial evacuation. Apparently, they determined an internal concrete wall was failing but the columns supporting the tower were not affected.
There's a lot of confusion. Most involved in the reporting have zero expertise in building engineering and are using conflicting terms.
Obviously something went very wrong with the construction of at least one floor of the tower, but what really is the reason?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46671811
The building fault, reported by residents who heard "cracking noises", caused the 33-storey tower to move up to 2 millimetres and left doors jammed shut on Monday.
While most of the residents in the Australian tower were eventually allowed to return home on Monday night, occupants of 51 apartments were forced to spend Christmas Eve elsewhere and have not been allowed to return.
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