At 17:55 20/04/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Mike,
>New FEMA reports are out and perhaps that is the first time that the lay
>people have heard of this.  Those in the business, I'm a structural
>engineer, have known about this shortly after the Northridge quake.

 yes i also heard abt this within 12 months of the Northridge earthquake
in an article on that quake in the National Geographic magazine it showed
pic or 2 of weld failures and comments on how many LA hi-rises were
constructed this way

Dave

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