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The Citicorp Tower Crisis

The Citicorp Tower Crisis

FromBrady Heywood Podcast


The Citicorp Tower Crisis

FromBrady Heywood Podcast

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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
Sep 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 1978 an engineering design error was discovered in the Citicorp Tower in Manhattan. It was so serious that it threatened the tower’s integrity. This is the story of how it was found and the race against time to fix it.

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Released:
Sep 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we’d like to think.