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Later that night, she drove to Meridian Towers.

They crawled through ceiling plenums, tapped columns for hollow sounds, measured rebar cover with a pachometer. In the basement, behind a boiler, they found something unexpected: a seam in the foundation where an original wing had been cut away in 1985. SEI 31 03 Seismic Evaluation of Existing Buildings ....pdf

“That’s a load path discontinuity,” Marcus whispered. Later that night, she drove to Meridian Towers

It passed unanimously.

“The evaluation shows significant seismic deficiencies,” she said at a public hearing. “I cannot sign a statement of compliance without retrofits.” Later that night