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Hopefully it will stay up a lot longer than 4 days...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16716970

Maybe I'm just old, but I've always had this uneasy feeling about prefab construction.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_balcony_collapse

I remember this was a big incident back in 2015. At least steel can't rot.


It'll rust just fine and the acoustics are terrible. A container based building I worked in had a fridge several units over that you could clearly hear. Steel construction needs to be clad properly or you're going to hear everybody moving around.




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