{"id":14257,"date":"2025-05-03T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=14257"},"modified":"2025-04-27T06:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:12:54","slug":"citicorp-center-structural-flaw-new-york-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/citicorp-center-structural-flaw-new-york-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Structural Mistake That Nearly Took Down a New York Landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Most Dangerous Building in Manhattan\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q56PMJbCFXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In 1978, engineer Bill LeMessurier discovered a fatal flaw in New York&#8217;s Citicorp Center: wind could cause its collapse. With hidden risks and no time for public repairs, he and the company secretly reinforced the building. Averted disaster and ethical decision-making earned LeMessurier recognition, spurring code changes and inspiring worldwide use of tuned mass dampers in skyscrapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hidden flaw in New York\u2019s Citicorp Center nearly caused a catastrophic collapse\u2014until a daring, secret repair operation turned a potential disaster into a landmark engineering ethics case.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3383\/3579492183_90377c236a_h.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[9136,9138,9129,9142,9127,9144,9132,9130,9140,9137,9141,9135,9131,9133,9145,9126,9134,9139,9143,9128,216,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-14257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-engineering","8":"tag-1978-citicorp-emergency-reinforcement","9":"tag-601-lexington-near-collapse","10":"tag-bill-lemessurier-citicorp-crisis","11":"tag-building-codes-quartering-winds","12":"tag-chevron-bracing-citicorp-center","13":"tag-citicorp-center-collapse-risk","14":"tag-citicorp-center-structural-flaw","15":"tag-citicorp-center-wind-load-mistake","16":"tag-citicorp-center-wind-stability-failure","17":"tag-diane-hartley-citicorp-discovery","18":"tag-engineering-responsibility-public-safety","19":"tag-ethical-engineering-citicorp-center","20":"tag-hurricane-ella-citicorp-center","21":"tag-lee-decarolis-citicorp-student-alert","22":"tag-lessons-from-citicorp-center-disaster","23":"tag-project-serene-citicorp-repairs","24":"tag-quartering-winds-skyscraper-design","25":"tag-skyscraper-tuned-mass-dampers","26":"tag-structural-engineering-professional-ethics","27":"tag-tuned-mass-damper-skyscrapers","28":"tag-veritasium-2","29":"tag-youtube","30":"post_format-post-format-video","31":"cs-entry","32":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14261,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257\/revisions\/14261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}