grainfedprairieboy grainfedprairieboy:
Owner of collapsed Que. building say event was unfortunate, unforeseeableSo roofs are caving in all over Quebec but being blamed on snow loads. Gee whiz, it snows a lot in Quebec doesn't it? You'd think after 400 winters (all with snow) the Quebec provincial building code would recognize that fact.
From collapsing bridges to the crumpling Olympic stadium, Quebec engineering and construction skills are certainly world renowned but in a South Korean sort of way. I personally don't begrudge the engineers though, I reckon it's just shoddy French workmanship or typical Quebec style graft and/or organised crime skimming off on construction materials.
Again with this generalization. I's be looking at the houses that are being built in Alberta at the moment. Everyone is making a killing putting them up, hardly nailed , whatch them fall in a couple of years..
I put up houses in the Toronto area in 86 during that boom. Man you want to see shoddy workman ship , pathetic. Quebec construction standards (on paper, theres always some asshat that creaps through the cracks) is a head and above the Canadian construction codes.
We are 20 years a head of NewHampshire standards.
Your sense critisizing reminds me of the dill holes back during the ice storm of 98 when they bashed the electric company here of spacing electrical poles too far apart for something that is supposedly happenes once every hundred years.
Sorry Grain , usually you have solid argueing points but this one is below what your capable. Its just a reason to bash Quebec.
Record weather situations are never calculated in the construction code.