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The Criminal Courts of Justice

  • 06-06-2010 8:10pm
    #1
    Voltex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭


    What a beautiful building! Modern, imposing, and fantastically finished.
    I used to think who ever designed it, should be given an award or something...until I was passing by it today...and noticed outside the front door, at the bottom of the steps...a giant puddle of water about 30meters long and about 5-8 meters wide. I would have thought that any engineer working on a building to be located in one of Europe’s wettest countries may have kept drainage issues to the fore front of his design pre-requisites.

    Its the same thing as on the N7 outbound at Kill. We have a modern high volume carriageway...finished in 2006...yet at the merest sniff of moisture lane 3 pools a large volume of water creating a very dangerous situation where cars can hit the water at very high speeds causing them to aquaplane.
    Only in Ireland!!


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  • #2
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Engineers design drainage layouts for roads & buildings, not architects. At least point the finger in the right direction if yr doing it.


  • #3
    Voltex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭Voltex


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Engineers design drainage layouts for roads & buildings, not architects. At least point the finger in the right direction if yr doing it.
    Thanks for clearing that up...oftened wondered what those guys did!


  • #4
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Voltex wrote: »
    Thanks for clearing that up...oftened wondered what those guys did!

    Yep - they mess up drainage & put oversized columns in stupid places. That's about the height of it.


  • #5
    karlog
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    I heard the engineers do it on purpose so they can drive there cars through the puddles, soaking pedestrians for the lulz.

    Got that from a very reliable internet resource


  • #6
    starbelgrade
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    karlog wrote: »
    I heard the engineers do it on purpose so they can drive there cars through the puddles, soaking pedestrians for the lulz.

    Got that from a very reliable internet resource

    I think you are creditting them with a bit too much intelligence there. ;)


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  • #7
    CreepingDeath
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    Voltex wrote: »
    I was passing by it today...and noticed outside the front door, at the bottom of the steps...a giant puddle of water about 30meters long and about 5-8 meters wide.

    Yeah, there should be a mandatory sheep-dip to wash the criminal elements who are scheduled for a court hearing.


  • #8
    mikom
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    Voltex wrote: »


    The Criminal Courts of Justice
    noticed outside the front door, at the bottom of the steps...a giant puddle of water about 30meters long and about 5-8 meters wide.

    An allegorical representation of the current justice system perhaps.


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