…but who cares? Today is a de facto holiday for a lot of people, and that seems like a good time for a blog post I should have written last summer.
Some of our projects are very big, involving hundreds of thousands of square feet of building. Some are not. The smallest structure I’ve analyzed and designed for a client was a park bench. Last summer we had one that was not quite that small, but close: the Nivola Horses. These chunky concrete horses are my age and had physically deteriorated for decades – no comment – before being cut off their supports for adjacent infrastructure repair. Jablonski Building Conservation was brought in to repair them so they could be refastened in place, and JBC hired us to make sure that the new connections were structurally adequate.
It turned out that there were rebars in the legs far too big to make sense as reinforced concrete but which more or less worked as structural legs by themselves, with the concrete as cover and to create the pretty horse-leg shape.
All is good.
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