Billboard Construction Integrity
Monday, November 9, 2009
I went back from the campus with a bit of horror today. Along BSD, I saw humongous billboards on the road, crashed without the ability to withstand the enormous wind power of today’s thunderstorm. This puts the concern in me on how do these guys manage to design a thing that big and at the same time, not calculate the correct numbers on how to deal with mother nature. I’m no structural engineer, but the billboards I see have these tiny cages and bars, huge dimensions, and no wind-dispersion system whatsoever. No wonder they collapsed. Perhaps if they create these tiny perforations on the billboard’s main plane, it could disperse wind and withstand better.
A bit of advice, if you have to storm through the rain, try to keep your vehicle away from these billboards. Better be safe than sorry.
