Engineers blame lack of steel reinforcement on Pfizer HQ structural failure

A week after a safety incident made national news, we’re beginning to get clarity on what led to a blocks-wide evacuation at the project at the former Pfizer Building. It appears that construction workers at the Midtown office-to-home conversion failed to install key steel reinforcement that could have caused two columns to buckle. The two steel columns that collapsed on July 7 in the 37-story tower at 235 East 42nd Street didn’t appear to have the reinforcing plates called for in the project plans, according to engineers interviewed by Gothamist. Engineers from GACE Consulting Engineers had called for the added […]

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