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make a groundbreaking architectural statement
make a groundbreaking architectural statement
2. finalising the hotel’s design
3. fast-track approach
4. 10-year record
5. one of his firm’s biggest challenges yet
6. bolts were wrongly installed
7. opens on schedule
8. suspended walkways
9. decide against entering the contest
10. traces the popping noise
11. glass and concrete skyways
12. escaped being crushed by the narrowest of margins
13. 65 tons of wreckage
14. to view the wreckage
15. excert a load of 83 kg per square metre
16. a fraction of the possible maximum load
17. set up the wave motion
18. harmonic vibration
19. foxtrot with the treading frequency of 1.1 beats per second
20. critical connection point
21. hanger rods
22. secured by nuts under beams
23. not up to the task
24. normally put them back to back
25. they took two channels and turned them toe-to-toe
26. welded them to form a box beam
27. causes a serious problem
28. weakest point
29. ludicrous way to do it
30. where the walkways gave way
31. to take the weight of the walkways
32. the walls of the beam start to curve
33. estimated load
34. nowhere near strong enough
35. totally unaware of the danger
36. without anyone realising it was not up to the job
37. one third of the load capacity required
38. spotlight falls on
39. their motives were aesthetic
40. flawed from the start
41. load-bearing calculations
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ReplyDelete1. Inimlikke eksimusi ei saa päriselt vältida, aga see ei tohi olla vabanduseks hooletusele.
2. Ehitusest pidi saama enneolematu arhitektuurisaavutus.
3. Rippteed olid kõige vaatamisväärsemad.
4. Meie otsustasime võistluses mitte osaleda.
5. Töö lõpetati tähtajal kõige napimalt (=peaaegu pidi tähtaja ületama).
6. Resonants võib purustada päris suuri sildu, nii tuule kui näiteks marssimise tõttu.
7. Kriitilisi ühenduskohti kontrolliti korduvalt, aga alati tuleb teha ka arvutused.
8. Rippvardad olid lühemad, sest neid oli lihtsam paigaldada.
9. Mutreid talade all ei pingutatud ja see oli tõsine eksimus ning põhjustas suuri probleeme.
10. Tala küljed hakkasid painduma, sest see ei olnud ligilähedaseltki nii tugev, kui vaja.
11. Asi, mis on algusest peale vale, ei saa pisimuudatuste abil kasutatavaks muutuda.