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A tsunami warning is in place after Officials Say they identified a nearly seven foot wave. U. S. Geological survey says it struck 61 miles northwest, hitting an area that has been rocked by numerous quakes over two weeks. Cnnchile showing people walking calmly throughout the streets. Lots of people out on the streets feeling that shake. So far, there have been no reports of injuries or damage. None can be seen in this video. We are on the story well update you with more information as soon as we get it during this hour and our breaking news continues on twitter. Good evening, and thanks for j...

Asking the question, what is a highrise building . What what makes this different from any other building . We have the architect for this project. This is actually two projects . That is correct. We are building a little over 100 units, hud found it, affordable housing. There is a community center, Child Development center, a youth center, and there are a couple of retail spaces, the tenant of which is still to be determined. Are these highrise buildings . They are. A highrise building is a building that is more than 75 feet from the point of Fire Department access on the ground to the floor ...

The floor above . Because the slabs on grade is a conventional slap, it is not post tension. One of the things the building designers do is to make the floor as thin as they reasonably can. There are several benefits to that. First of all, it reduces the mass of the building. We have 7. 5 inch slab. Conventional slab would probably be 10. 5 inches, which is about 25 more concrete mass. It also reduces the overall floor to floor height, which helps with the architectural facade and the square footage. One of the things people are always looking at is decreasing the floor to floor height, especi...

Between market and mission streets. We have all of the people who are part of the project, including the contractors, the design engineers, soil engineers, structural folks. I think we should byrt asking the question, what is a highrise building . What what makes this different from any other building . We have the architect for this project. This is actually two projects . That is correct. We are building a little over 100 units, hud found it, affordable housing. There is a community center, Child Development center, a youth center, and there are a couple of retail spaces, the tenant of which...

Be heated and cooled with forced air, that is where you get the dropped ceiling. Also, corridors and public areas. The dwelling units do not have airconditioning . They do not. They have heating but not air conditioning. Do they have outside air . Absolutely, they have windows and they also have a system called zduct, which provides for a share even when the windows are closed. One of the reasons they have the systems, ever since 1974, chapter 12day of the Building Code requires that you have sound transmission isolation between dwelling units so they cannot hear their neighbors, and between t...