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I would suggest get a good professional structural engineer’s advice and act accordingly. Structural issues are too important to be decided subjectively.

(At least that is what I would do, though I do have a Civil engineering degree)

[bsrsharma]

How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?

Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!

FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)

[bsrsharma]

How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?

Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!

FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)

[bsrsharma]

How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?

Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!

FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)

[bsrsharma]

How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?

Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!

FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)

[bsrsharma]

How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?

Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!

FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)

[bsrsharma]

MIT has free Open Course Ware

on a variety of topics. Anybody can learn for free what MIT students learn after paying six figure tuition!

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

[bsrsharma]

MIT has free Open Course Ware

on a variety of topics. Anybody can learn for free what MIT students learn after paying six figure tuition!

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

[bsrsharma]

MIT has free Open Course Ware

on a variety of topics. Anybody can learn for free what MIT students learn after paying six figure tuition!

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

[bsrsharma]

MIT has free Open Course Ware

on a variety of topics. Anybody can learn for free what MIT students learn after paying six figure tuition!

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

[bsrsharma]

MIT has free Open Course Ware

on a variety of topics. Anybody can learn for free what MIT students learn after paying six figure tuition!

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

[bsrsharma]

Same problem here in Portland, Oregon. Near our home, a whole block of CRE is empty in the car country district. Dodge, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Isuzu, Saturn have all left huge CRE footage empty. Since they are auto dealerships, it is hard to imagine any use for the properties (especially with all the environmental issues involved). In downtown, a skyscraper was foreclosed (interestingly, CALPERS was a part owner), another under construction has been mothballed with a big hole dug in the ground and boarded up in the center of downtown. Today, Saks 5th, the anchor customer of a prestigious downtown development announced they are closing at end of lease.

I think many businesses are closing or moving out after end of expensive leases. A 50% vacancy in high cost CRE seems likely for a long term.

[bsrsharma]

Same problem here in Portland, Oregon. Near our home, a whole block of CRE is empty in the car country district. Dodge, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Isuzu, Saturn have all left huge CRE footage empty. Since they are auto dealerships, it is hard to imagine any use for the properties (especially with all the environmental issues involved). In downtown, a skyscraper was foreclosed (interestingly, CALPERS was a part owner), another under construction has been mothballed with a big hole dug in the ground and boarded up in the center of downtown. Today, Saks 5th, the anchor customer of a prestigious downtown development announced they are closing at end of lease.

I think many businesses are closing or moving out after end of expensive leases. A 50% vacancy in high cost CRE seems likely for a long term.

[bsrsharma]

Same problem here in Portland, Oregon. Near our home, a whole block of CRE is empty in the car country district. Dodge, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Isuzu, Saturn have all left huge CRE footage empty. Since they are auto dealerships, it is hard to imagine any use for the properties (especially with all the environmental issues involved). In downtown, a skyscraper was foreclosed (interestingly, CALPERS was a part owner), another under construction has been mothballed with a big hole dug in the ground and boarded up in the center of downtown. Today, Saks 5th, the anchor customer of a prestigious downtown development announced they are closing at end of lease.

I think many businesses are closing or moving out after end of expensive leases. A 50% vacancy in high cost CRE seems likely for a long term.

[bsrsharma]

Same problem here in Portland, Oregon. Near our home, a whole block of CRE is empty in the car country district. Dodge, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Isuzu, Saturn have all left huge CRE footage empty. Since they are auto dealerships, it is hard to imagine any use for the properties (especially with all the environmental issues involved). In downtown, a skyscraper was foreclosed (interestingly, CALPERS was a part owner), another under construction has been mothballed with a big hole dug in the ground and boarded up in the center of downtown. Today, Saks 5th, the anchor customer of a prestigious downtown development announced they are closing at end of lease.

I think many businesses are closing or moving out after end of expensive leases. A 50% vacancy in high cost CRE seems likely for a long term.

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