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Tall Stories
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Picture in your mind the skyline of downtown Toronto. There's the CN Tower,
of course, and the 72-floor First Canadian Place, the city's tallest
skyscraper. Cascading from there are the assorted banks and hotels and
insurance towers.
Now, use your imagination to construct some new buildings, th ....
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....firm ground, or
else risk the fate of edifices like the Empress Hotel in Victoria. This
grand dowager, completed in 1908, long before the science of soil
mechanics, has since found herself slowly sinking into the soft clay.
Soil analysis is especially critical in facing the threat of
earthquakes. The Japanese have learned many times the hard way what
happens when an earth tremor shakes a high-rise constructed on soft, wet
sand. The quake's enormous energy severs the loose connections betwe.... |
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