[BC] Strong buildings vs open space

[engineermike]

I had a friend, David Hughes, that turned down a job at one of the stations in 
the Sears tower.  He came back to Tennessee saying he would never go back to 
that crazy building.  To hear him tell it the building was moving so much he had 
to hold onto hand rails while walking down the hall and his attempt to visit the 
mens room made him even sicker. LOL  He said he was sick to his stomach by the 
time he got out of there and would never go back no matter what the offer.  He 
ended up in Nashville at a country station there until his untimely passing at 
age 41. :(  You couldn't meet a nicer guy.
Have a good one
Mike


Mike McCarthy wrote:
> 
> Sears is a very different design where each of the nine 75 ft. square 
> sections are designed to stand on their own and flex. Even at the 
> penthouse, the vertical columns spaced at 25 ft. are 24" I' beams which 
> are 1" thick and spreaders some 10" on either end. There are center 
> columns spaced at 25 ft. through all the building as well.  So think of 
> it really as a 225 ft. square building with columns every 25 ft. no 
> matter which way you look.

> For buildings completed in 1969 and 1982 respective and the designs done 
> by hand, they're both an amazing feat. Sears still moves around in wind 
> though.  In fact, when I was there during a 60 MPH wind event on the 
> ground, I saw water sloshing around in the toilet on 102.  And when you 
> get to the ground, you have rubber legs for the first 100 steps or so...
> 
> So what does this have to do with radio?  Simple...the sites are well 
> built to survive the nasty midwest winters and spring storms...and keep 
> on going.
> 
> MM