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EmperorGeek t1_j7gq76i wrote

Friend of mine spent time in Turkey while serving with US Military decades ago. He said their construction methods at the time were horrible. They would pour a multi-floor wall as a single monolithic pour. This results in all the aggregate settling to the bottom of the form resulting in a horribly weak wall.

He said he wouldn’t let his men into any of the buildings over a few stories tall because of this.

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