The famed Leaning Tower of Pisa started to slant before it was even finished. Workers in the late 1100s, noticing the problem of “tilt”, attempted to correct for it. The finished tower contains a slight curve as a result. The Tower has continued to move and lean over time. Tourists pose for pictures where they appear to hold up the stone Tower to prevent it from falling and causing terrible injuries and fatalities. Some building collapse lawyers regard the Leaning Tower as an accident waiting to happen and as a lesson in negligent construction.
Our building collapse lawyers note that recently, engineers undertook a multi-million dollar project to try and stabilize the tower and prevent its structural collapse. As part of their project, made following decades of stabilization studies and efforts, they extracted about 70 tons of earth from under the north side of the Leaning Tower to encourage it to right itself. Some while after the earth extraction, monitors underneath the Tower showed that it had stopped its motion completely.
The head of the project team says that their work should allow the Leaning Tower to stand for at least another 200 years. The Leaning Tower can continue to stand as a monument to poor building design and construction and an immensely popular tourist attraction.
The tower currently leans at an angle of about 3.99 degrees. The angle stood at 5.5 degrees prior to the recent restoration. The top of the Leaning Tower is currently displaced 12 feet 10 inches from where a perfectly vertical tower top would stand.
One can’t blame this building failure on hasty construction as building collapse lawyers so often can in modern times. Construction of the Leaning Tower occurred over at least 177 years in three distinct stages, with breaks for wars between contending Italian city-states. The leaning and sinking of the tower is blamed on a slim 3-meter foundation set in weak and unstable subsoil.
Our building collapse lawyers mention that over the years, there’s been some controversy regarding the actual identity of the architect of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Perhaps he would want to remain nameless, given the final product.