Crumbling WVU building designed by students

[snopes]

Comment: At West Virginia University, the main building for engineering
has started to crumble and has needed repairs. Of course, this building
was design by former WVU engineering students

[WildaBeast]

Is this a relitively new buildint that's requiring more repairs than one would expect, or is the building just old? If it's the latter, then so what? All building need repairs as they age.

[Judecat]

Main engineering building was built in 1967, the labs where built about 20 years later, and they are now building a new wing -- The main building has not required any more repair or maintanence than any other building from the 1960's

[Mycroft]

At my local university the building that held the architecture department had a large concrete canopy that didn't quite join the building

[WildaBeast]

Even if the building did require more repairs than normal (which it sounds like it didn't), that doesn't necessarily mean the engineers who designed it were incompetent. That probably more likely means the building was built with inferior materials, or the construction company hired to build it did a shoddy job.

good point. also, it is not unkown for recent buildings to not get needed matintenance because priority is given to older buildings. so naturally after not getting checked on for 30 years, the building is in terrible shape.

[Ali Infree]

I once had a class in this building while matriculating at WVU. It had elevators that seemed rather unsound--stopping and starting and hesitating. We joked about them, in the grim way that one might when you are expecting to trapped in one.
I do have to note that a large rock slid off the hillside onto a 4 lane road below this building. It could be the earth movements underneath the building are causing some of the building's problems.
I agree that there are other reasons for this and other buildings to be having problems, not just a question of who designed the building.

Ali "after all the guys that built the pyramids weren't available" Infree