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Old Posted Nov 24, 2010, 8:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Zapatan View Post
Yea you're right, the thing is that they could jack the building up a 100 feet or so without making any major design changes
They don't build things this large with that kind of margin left over. It's both unsafe (though, less so with CAD) and wasteful. Any enlargement, in any dimension, beyond a trivial amount (100 feet is not trivial) and we're looking at total stoppage and complete rework.
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