In reply to Robbie (Forum Supporter) :
I agree with your thoughts, but not your solution.
Flooding will happen, and increasingly affect buildings. However, as John Welsh has pointed out, we are about to have a massive surplus of commercial buildings. There are gonna be a huge number of businesses that don't survive COVID.
For those that do, conducting business in a building with a known health risk will be an absolute no-no.
I'm glad you like your town. The answer is that buildng needs to be condemned and ownership transferred to the City. Once they fix their drainage issue, they can decide what to do with it.
Seriously. Don't do this.
In reply to Robbie (Forum Supporter) :
If my Mom's basement flooded regularly with contaminated flood waters and she refused to move, I would force her to.
I would not let her live in a building with E36 M3 on the walls.
I have been a responder to about a half dozen major floods.
I always thought it was water....
I didn't think about the cow manure from the fields it had washed through, or the corpses whose caskets had floated out of the ground, or the fertilizer plant that was also flooded, or the dead bodies of drowned victims, or the chemical and treatment plants that the water had passed through, or the medical waste dumpster that floated away, or the oil sludge tank that floated upside down and spilled....
It ain't water.
Honestly its a terrible idea. From a man who is known for terrible ideas, its bad, even by my standards.
SVreX (Forum Supporter) said:
In reply to Sidewayze :
That's impossible.
Concrete is porous. It still has cavities and voids.
Aluminum door and frames are hollow. The void inside will be contaminated.
Not impossible. Just spectacularly expensive, difficult and extremely maintenance intensive, to the point of being completely unviable. Essentially the point I was making.
In reply to Sidewayze :
I have been in the construction industry for 44 years. I spent many years specializing and studying appropriate technologies- the various methods and different techniques used in construction technologies and methodologies all over the world.
There are no construction methods widely used that don't use cavities and voids and porous materials as an integral part of their method.
Could we make buildings out of cast in place glass or welded components without voids? In theory yes, but not in practice. If nothing else it would violate the building codes for thermal efficiency.
So, I stand by my statement.
