jar546
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That was interesting and worth watching. Key ... I think you meant cathodic not catholic. :} Ahh ... dang speel chek ... I had to go back and correct what it corrected, so maybe you typed the rite wurd.
One thought ... all infrastructure is built with a certain design life. And typically we try to stretch life to the max and beyond ... deferred maintenance and deferred replacement. Wasn’t too long ago there was a bunch of stuff in the news about crumbling infrastructure and the huge cost of replacement.
Au contraire mademoiselle. They know what they are doing, they VE the design to get the cost to work out for the expected life. Nothing more. I read a book, something like “engineering disasters” things like the kemper arena and others. One recurring element in the design was lack of redundancy. When one small item failed, the surrounding items had been built to just do their job and nothing more, so it started zippering.Often value engineering overlooks useable life in their calc's