Capitalizing onward inherent struc...

Capitalizing onward inherent structural strengths

Liberalized digest requirements permit the development of latent capacities when older buildings are revamped The structural quality of older buildings frequently allows major changes or additions to be made to them with and nothing else minor structural changes, if the structural engineer understands by what mode to discover and develop its "hidden" capacity.

Charles Thornton, principal of of the present day York City-based Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers, noted that building digests are continually changing, usually becoming les restrictive. common important change has