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Osubuckeyes wrote:There is a massive range of causes for major outages and outages to major infrastructure. IMO, many are caused by design flaws, poor design or outdated design. ATL specifically sounds like an issue poor design, but I haven't seen enough detail to know that for sure.
I'll add the caveat that major weather catastrophes are obviously cause major outages, but I'm guessing that isn't what you are looking for.
readytotaxi wrote:Osubuckeyes wrote:There is a massive range of causes for major outages and outages to major infrastructure. IMO, many are caused by design flaws, poor design or outdated design. ATL specifically sounds like an issue poor design, but I haven't seen enough detail to know that for sure.
I'll add the caveat that major weather catastrophes are obviously cause major outages, but I'm guessing that isn't what you are looking for.
Yes indeed, very good points. The main thing is backup, when it goes tits up, how much are you prepared to spend as a company to ensure a backup kicks in straight away and you just blink? Guess you need to build the cost into the original pricing.
BreninTW wrote:I've know of a building where the generators were placed well above the flood levels ... and the diesel storage tanks at ground level. Ooops!