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cm2187 on April 30, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Has something ever failed in the field due to a b...

But in construction you typically keep huge safety margins, don't you (like in case someone left a dead body in the concrete!)?

fsloth on April 30, 2016 [–]

(Note:I'm not personally in construction but my daily job involves implementing features for various CAD products.)

Sure, but a design error is still a design error. The capability to recover from design errors might be there but it does not mean unexpected flaws won't incur an overhead to costs and schedule.

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