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Everyone can build a tower which stands. Only engineer can build a tower which barely stays.
This is what the engineers claim, and then they tack on a 50% margin of error they don't bother to explain because the business major ghouls would make them remove it if they knew.
And then builders remove a third to save money. Resulting with just barely standing building.
Both material factors and load factors are very well explained and grounded, they are not arbitrary. The problem is that they are too technical to explain to a non-engineer.
Hugely disagree. Most people can't build a tower which stands at all. In fact if they managed, I would say it's much more "barely standing" than the engineer's.
Who said the tower has to be taller than a wood plank?