Residential houses, meanwhile, can be raised “simply,” Karp says. “We cut the piers, the concrete’s soft, we put steel jacks in, we jack up the house, and we put it back in place,” he says. “Not a problem.”
The real point, Mowry says, is that if you scale resilience to a citywide level, no matter what that resilience calls for, it can be done. Monad Terrace and its ilk, in other words, seem to have excessive precautions built into their designs, but there’s a good chance that in 30 or 40 years these elevated, stormproof towers could be the norm.
“We raise our standards,” Mowry says, “and it applies to everybody.”
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