"There’s no reinforced steel here,” she says, “so the concrete lost its strength...

rsync · on Feb 13, 2023

That's unbelievable.

I was expecting to learn that marginal corners had been cut ... best practices had not been followed, etc.

But concrete high rise superstructure without steel reinforcement (like rebar) is beyond the pale.

How could you even construct that and escape notice (and alarm!) from passersby ? How could you silence (every single worker at the site) ?