# Convention Center Floor Collapses **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 5, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/convention-center-floor-collapses/187861 "2007-02-05T14:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![tom\_vito](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tom_vito/32/6000_2.png) [@tom\_vito](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tom_vito)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/convention-center-floor-collapses/187861/20 "2007-02-07T16:14:32Z")
> [@lady problems.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lady-problems/27650/286): > > I’d be more likely to believe it’s material defect than an engineering fault, I’d have to imagine the engineers got double-guessed a few times, and checked over… > > just breaking stones bics56, I woulda laughed too, then proceeded to walk down the hall to see who I could point at and laugh > [@VTEC y0](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vtec-y0/27791/2): > > i dont know much about engineering, but I’d imagine there is quite a bit of redundancy built it as far as safety goes. With all the hoops I have to jump through just to make alterations to a swimming pool, I’d imagine its 10x as involved to get stuff like this approved with the state. Sounds like bad materials to me. I don’t think this is as uncommon as all think. Watch the History channel some time, they have a show called something like engineered disasters… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/convention-center-floor-collapses/187861)._