"Five years ago Thursday, Sept. 26 (2008), groundbreaking for the Silver Spring Transit Center took place.
Of course, we all know how that has gone—structural inefficiencies have kept the center closed, and the contractor disagrees with the county on the best way to address the issues, Patch reported. "
"...structural inefficiencies..."???
That's a new one! In engineering school, they're called "structural defects" or "structural inadequacies". KCE, the structural engineering firm hired by Montgomery County to evaluate the SSTC, calls them "errors and omissions" in their March 15, 2013 report (which is on Montgomery County's website). The meaning and consequences of "errors and omissions" or "defect(ive)" or "inadequate" are quite different from the meaning and consequences of "structural inefficiencies" (whatever that means).
I would use another word besides "inefficient" to describe the parking garage in NJ and the bridges in Cincinnati and Willits CA that collapsed this week, and the parking garage that collapsed at Montgomery Mall in 2013.
- Snowplow driver falls in Secaucus parking garage collapse | NJ.com
- Man killed by I-75 bridge collapse
- Caltrans, OSHA investigating cause of bridge collapse | News - Home
- Parking Deck Collapse At Westfield Montgomery Mall In Md. Kills 1 | wusa9.com
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