[TowerTalk] World's toughest fixes - 2000' tower

[John Kemker]

John Hancock promptly sued the contractor/architect for the damage.  The 
contractor/architect said, "No problem, we'll just have our insurance 
company pay for it." You can probably guess who had insured them...

Larry Banks wrote:
> It was the John Hancock Tower, in Boston, in the early 70's.  The solution 
> was thicker glass!  They also had to ADD dampers:
>
> "The building's upper-floor occupants suffered from motion sickness when the 
> building swayed in the wind. To stabilize the movement, a device called a 
> tuned mass damper was installed on the 58th floor."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Tower
>
> 73 - Larry - W1DYJ
>
>   


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--JohnK
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