What if we are “actively aligning incentives against” having such a thing? (Coyote, Apr. 14).
Separately, Coyote explains why he isn’t very active in his own blog’s comment section, though he often learns things from it.
“On honest engineering discourse”
What if we are “actively aligning incentives against” having such a thing? (Coyote, Apr. 14). Separately, Coyote explains why he isn’t very active in his own blog’s comment section, though he often learns things from it.
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You bet the lawyers were involved with this one from the getgo.
from the National Academy of Engineering Website:
http://www.onlineethics.diamax.com/CMS/profpractice/exempindex/lemesindex/6.aspx
On July 31, 1978, LeMessurier contacted the lawyer of the architectural firm that had retained him as its structural consultant for the Citicorp tower and then the firm’s insurance company. As a result, a meeting was arranged the following day with several lawyers for the insurers, to whom LeMessurier related the entire story. The lawyers soon decided to bring in a special consultant — Les Robertson, a respected structural engineer. Robertson listened to LeMessurier’s description of the situation and soon took a more critical view than even LeMessurier himself. Robertson did not believe, for instance, that the tuned mass damper would serve as a safety device despite LeMessurier’s assurances that generators could keep the dampers running during an electrical power loss.