From: "Frank Haber" 

Any civil engineers here?  That article is fabulous, but doesn't give a
picture of the standard calculation of safety factors.  Is it an RMS thing,
with outlying data ignored?

I've no problem with the implied ignoring of surveys and improper basic
assumptions.  That soil looks like really slippy-slidey stuff, and it seems
it wasn't properly surveyed.

And then we come to the political and costs/bidding pressures.  I wonder
whether there is a "crisis in morality" in the civil trades,
mirroring the almost total abdication of probity by the accountants over
the last thirty years?  Bet that last one gets a rise out of someone here
(g).

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