More cracking sounds from Paris Airport Terminal

With the first collapse, cracking sounds were heard up to 5-10
minutues
before the collapse, permiting three policemen to get about
80 people out of the area in which the collapse occurred.

4 and not 5 were killed it the only other factual update
except below.

Earl

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Workers Hear Cracks in Stricken Paris Air Terminal

Mon May 24, 9:00 AM ET

PARIS (Reuters) - Construction workers heard new cracks Monday in the
roof of a Paris airport terminal where part of the ceiling collapsed a
day earlier, an airport spokesman said.

He said the workers were evacuated as a precaution.

The terminal 2E at Charles de Gaulle airport has been closed to
passengers since Sunday's accident killed four people, but workers are
there clearing the rubble and trying to ensure the building is safe.

"Police evacuated the building as a precaution after the cracking was
heard in the same terminal," said Jerome Dutrieux, spokesman for
Aeroports de Paris (ADP), the Paris airports operator.

"The cracks were again in the departure hall."

Slabs of concrete, metal and glass crashed down onto a waiting area
in terminal 2E Sunday morning, bringing down a 50-meter long, 30-meter
wide (160 by 100 foot) section of a long tube-like building at Paris'
biggest airport.

ADP Chairman Pierre Graff has said the entire terminal would be torn
down if the building turned out to be unsafe.

Unless it can be proved beyond any doubt that the cause of the collapse
is not a risk for other parts of the building, the entire structure
should be torn down. Until this determination is made, the entire
structure should remain closed.

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"Earl" wrote in message
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With the first collapse, cracking sounds were heard up to 5-10
minutues
before the collapse, permiting three policemen to get about
80 people out of the area in which the collapse occurred.

4 and not 5 were killed it the only other factual update
except below.

Earl

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Workers Hear Cracks in Stricken Paris Air Terminal

Mon May 24, 9:00 AM ET

PARIS (Reuters) - Construction workers heard new cracks Monday in the
roof of a Paris airport terminal where part of the ceiling collapsed a
day earlier, an airport spokesman said.

He said the workers were evacuated as a precaution.

The terminal 2E at Charles de Gaulle airport has been closed to
passengers since Sunday's accident killed four people, but workers are
there clearing the rubble and trying to ensure the building is safe.

"Police evacuated the building as a precaution after the cracking was
heard in the same terminal," said Jerome Dutrieux, spokesman for
Aeroports de Paris (ADP), the Paris airports operator.

"The cracks were again in the departure hall."

Slabs of concrete, metal and glass crashed down onto a waiting area
in terminal 2E Sunday morning, bringing down a 50-meter long, 30-meter
wide (160 by 100 foot) section of a long tube-like building at Paris'
biggest airport.

ADP Chairman Pierre Graff has said the entire terminal would be torn
down if the building turned out to be unsafe.

The architect and the structural engineer together with the constructor
should be brought in front of an inquisition.
Chaired by Cherie Blair.

Wolfgang Schwanke writes:

The whole thing reminds me of the 1980 crash of the roof of the Berlin
Kongresshalle which was built in 1957:

What was the cause of the failure?

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Wolfgang Schwanke writes:

The whole thing reminds me of the 1980 crash of the roof of the Berlin
Kongresshalle which was built in 1957:

What was the cause of the failure?

Corrosion of some of the supporting concrete elements partially caused by
bad planning.

The difference being, the CDG terminal building is less than a year old.

T.


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Thomas Peel writes:

The difference being, the CDG terminal building is less than a year old.

It might help if French architects and engineers stopped trying to
emulate Le Corbusier with a neverending series of gray, stained concrete
uglies adorned with gray metal and gray windows. I call it the "Hoover
Dam look"--the only problem is that what looks good at Hoover Dam
doesn't look good at an airport or in an apartment building.

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