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Brookline building falls apart
By adamg on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 2:14pm
The Brookline Fire Department posted this photo of the front of 68 Egmont St., which has partially collapsed this afternoon.
BU has set up a temporary shelter for its students who live there. BU Today reports some two dozen students were displaced.
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That's weird
It's a handsome building on the streetview
https://goo.gl/maps/jtPjikKv88k
Yikes! — It Would Seem The Whole Block Has The Same Problem
( Google Maps — Street View )
( Google Maps — Roof View )
Violent block party...
Cornices dropped by, not acting very nice. Clashed with a rival street gang, their boulder arch-rival.
I'm guessing years ago some
I'm guessing years ago some cheap property owner or contractor removed a parapet wall above the cornice which used to counterweight the cantilevered cornice and then also failed to properly reinforce & waterproof cornice.Without a counterweight or additional reinforcement the cornice was already fighting a losing battle against gravity and water infiltration accelerated the process of structural failure.
The same thing happened at a NU dorm on Opera Place at Huntington Avenue a few years ago. Cheapskate roofing contractors lopping off what they considered ornamental bits of a building without regard to the structural and waterproofing implications.
I was a student there when
I was a student there when that happened -- thanks for the (probable) explanation. :-)
Nowadays, people are so anxious to take shortcuts
and to do what they damned well please, which has led to some rather disastrous results.
Cough cough
American electorate, cough