Comment on local hunger games construction almost complete

• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sugar will completely eliminate concrete’s ability to cure. A single pound of sugar can destroy an entire truck of wet cement.

  Not that I’m advocating for it. But it’s laughably easy to sneak onto a site with a hardhat, safety boots and a vest, and sabotage active construction.

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  • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Neat: fritzpak.com/is-sugar-a-good-concrete-retarder/

    Although I’m unsure about the pound of sugar to entire cement truck claim.

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    • ironeagl@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, a cement truck is like 45,000 lbs of concrete, which is .002%. Apparently .06% will delay setting by 90 minutes, so it’s more like 30 pounds?

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  • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now i know, I remembered the MythBusters episode where they bury two pigs in concrete, I think it’s the one with Jimmy Hoffa, that will definitely discourage anyone from living in the apartments.

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  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn. I didn’t knew that so I did some quick research and found out, that mixing in 1% of sugar can completely stop the forming of concrete.

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• MapleEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re going to molotov concrete and steel?

  Cool.

  Cool cool cool.

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  • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, a construction site contains plenty other stuff than concrete and steel: tools, equipment, building materials, temporary buildings for the workers, cables and piping.

    On top of that each time concrete gets fire damage, it gets weaker and may need to be replaced, at least core samples + weeks of analysis time + $$$ is needed to determine the damage.

    And let’s say they eventually finish building the apartments, they may never stop smelling like a BBQ.

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    • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How long would it take for the police to get involved and protect the site for free? Or do you think they would just ignore it? Does the law in USA say that if the victim of the crime is a company they have to hire private security and police is not involved?

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      • baelem@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This building is being developed by the university on university-owned land, so the university police would be in charge of protecting university property.

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        if there is a series of crimes in the area, police would increase patrols in the area.

        Anything more than that would require hiring a private security company.

        ground based security could easily be bypassed by a drone and with a remote igniter and a release latch.

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      • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For free?

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    • MapleEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ya…ok…have fun with that.

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      • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks, I did have fun coming up with ideas.

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  • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No for the concrete you use sugar, and for the steel… I don’t know maybe jet fuel or something.

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    • MapleEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How do you figure they will get the sugar into the concrete?

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