Adam Hengels

real estate developer, market urbanist, baseball dad, entrepreneur.
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[Cangelosi Sparks North @Sparks_North]

Congrats to @russell_hengels on his Commitment to UIC!

Big Russ since the moment he’s joined us has done nothing but work hard, be an outstanding teammate, and earn everything he’s had to!

@UIC_Baseball is getting a workhouse that is going to help right away!

[Russell Hengels @russell_hengels]

Go Flames! 🔥🔥#committed

[Prep Baseball Illinois @PrepBaseballIL]

RHP Russell Hengels (Maine South, 2027)

One of the top @PB_Uncommitted arms in IL.

6-4 | 214 lbs

FB: 86-90 mph, life
SL: 73-76 mph, 10/4
CH: 80-81 mph, flashed dive

#17ABC

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@sparklenaloha @TimTrytitle And/Or construction equipment and materials were stored where they shouldn't be. I'm betting it's a combination of things...

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

Holy crap. Some engineers having the craziest day of their lives. Once it's stabilized, a lifetime in court.

[FDNY @FDNY]

Just before at 8 a.m. Tuesday, the FDNY received reports of a structural issue at an active construction site on East 42nd Street between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. The call came in for reported issues at a 37-story building at 235 East 42nd Street that is currently being converted from a commercial office building into a residential building.

FDNY units, as well as representatives from the Department of Buildings and NYC Emergency Management, responded and found structural issues on the 21st floor. Two structural columns buckled, and there were multiple cracks and sagging floors.

"It's a very serious situation because the box beams—the steel beams—have started to bend and deflect from the weight," Chief of Department John Esposito said. "We evacuated the building and started evacuations of surrounding buildings. The building has continued to move since we have been on the scene."

The FDNY's drones have provided technical information and visuals for partner agencies as assessments are conducted. All workers were accounted for as of 1 p.m. Tuesday. Approximately 150 FDNY fire and EMS members responded to the scene.

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@sparklenaloha @TimTrytitle Doubt the load was miscalculated. That's fundamental stuff that had many eyes on it. By bet is that they assumed the existing steel was in better condition than it actually was. Perhaps rusted joints at roof level from water penetration. Still, it's on the engineers...

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@Rocco475171 Whoever's stamp is on the drawings isn't going anywhere.

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@Rocco475171

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@Rocco475171 US based, licensed in NY.

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@DeinonychusEgo And yeah, I'm very interested in how it does get repaired....

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@DeinonychusEgo Engineers won't have any power to stop repairs. Nor would they want to. It's a public safety issue.

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@TimTrytitle @sparklenaloha It wasnt originally designed for the added floors.

Regardless, engineers are responsible for the understanding the condition of the existing structure.

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@9MassHysteria9 I'll take the Over on 3 months and 10 percent.

10 years in court suing, getting sued, and as a witness in everyone suing everyone.

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@WillChiarucci @TPW60E Oh, you're just talking about whether it looks good. Not whether this guy who calls a column an "I-beam" has any idea what he's talking about. My mistake...

Aside from aesthetics, the steamfitter is full of shit.

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

A grad school (Struct. Eng.) professor of mine was a prominent forensic structural engineer. He would always say, it's very rare for a structural failure to be merely a design-related or merely a construction-related failure. Almost always, BOTH in situations like this.

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

Seems like a safe bet there were quality issues with the 60s era steel. But that's still on today's structural engineer to know the in-situ conditions.

A little surprised they didn't encase the columns in concrete. I'm sure it was considered.

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

@WillChiarucci @TPW60E He called that column an "I-Beam." Yes - completely talking out of his ass...

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

Seems like a safe bet there were quality issues with the 60s era steel. But that's still on today's structural engineer to know the in-situ conditions.

A little surprised they didn't encase the columns in concrete. I'm sure it was considered.

[Andy Malone @AndyM1928]

I got sent this video of 235 East 42nd Street at 8am this morning. The construction industry in NYC is a very small town. Now that the FDNY posted these photos it all makes sense. The video is clearly from an existing floor in the 1960 structure, not the new construction portion. The 1960's-1990's were a very low quality era, so it doesn't surprise me that the steel is either bad or designed with a very low safety factor. The fact the modern building engineer didn't add new columns under the addition though just seems crazy to me. By now I imagine they've added temporary shoring all the way up to the 21st floor. We're all very lucky it wasn't much worse.

Don't listen to the idiot union Steamfitter (plumber) in other videos saying this wouldn't have happened if it were a union job. That guy doesn't even work on this project, and he isn't an engineer. He's just running his mouth. I've seen union laborers do all the same dumb crap non-union guys do.

Also, the DOB had no real way of preventing this. No amount of random inspections would have caught it and they don't do their own structural calculations. They rely on the licensed engineer for that.

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

Evacuate Green Bay!

[New York Post @nypost]

Hard times coming for Midwest as massive storm could pound heartland https://t.co/Lb1LqIshcg

[Adam Hengels @hengels]

Pipefitter who doesn't know the difference between a beam and column thinks he figured out what the best structural engineers in the world missed and blames it on the iron workers...

[Dean_Moses @Dean_Moses]

A construction worker and union rep cliff Johnson speaks about the partial column collapse in Midtown.

[Russell Hengels @russell_hengels]

From my short start yesterday, capped at 50 pitches
3.0 IP | 5 K | 0 R | 3 H (0 hard hit) | 0 BB |69 S% | 3-1 W
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