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MineralMan

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28. I was simply describing poor construction practices that

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #27)

Mon Apr 29, 2013, 12:16 PM

Apr 2013

are common in some places. I wasn't commenting in any way on anything else.

Yes, close oversight by companies buying stuff from these companies would help prevent disasters like the one in Bangladesh. However, I doubt that the construction of that building was even known by any of those companies, and may have taken place long before they contracted with whomever was running those facilities.

The problem with poor construction methods is that they are often invisible, once the building is completed, and only become known when the building fails.

I was not talking about anything but building construction practices outside the US. The rest is another matter, not addressed in my post at all.

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