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tertiary77u

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  1. I was told by a friend that works for Harris county Emergency Management that Houston had gotten rid of most of the gravel roofs downtown to keep the damage down and he suggested and I agreed that possibly the actual flexing of the buildings caused many of the windows to pop out

    I know from my Lawrence Speck Architecture class at UT that this is possible in buildings even during calm times so it would make sense to me that the tallest and most likely to flex building like Chase would lose the most windows

    I believe it was the John Hancock Tower in Boston that Speck used as an example and noted it was because of the thinness of the building and that the thinness also contributed to some other issues as well like the HVAC system being too small at first.....but it has been a while since that class

    I agree with his theory.

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