An arena being built for the Philadelphia Flyers’ minor league affiliate hockey team will be founded on micropiles to mitigate possible sinkhole problems in the limestone bedrock. The arena in located at the site of a catastrophic collapse of a building, Corporate Plaza, in 1994. The collapse was blamed on sinkholes under the foundation that caused settlement and the rupture of a water main, flooding the area and exacerbating the issue. The building eventually had to be demolished. [Source: Morning Call via AGC SmartBrief. Image: CHUCK ZOVKO, The Morning Call]
Related Articles
Video of Car Swallowed by Sinkhole Related to Tunneling in Cairo, Egypt
September 29, 2009
rockman
Failures
Comments Off on Video of Car Swallowed by Sinkhole Related to Tunneling in Cairo, Egypt
On September 3, a sinkhole opened up on a downtown Cairo street, swallowing the car pictured here. According to the description accompanying the video uploaded to YouTube by TheDailyNewsEgypt, the sinkhole was related to tunneling activities for the Cairo Metro line that is currently under construction. Click through for the video. […]