- Author
- National Bureau of Standards
- Title
- Report to Congress on the Structural Assessment of the New U.S. Embassy Office Building in Moscow.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBSIR 87-3636, April 15, 1987, 31 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- office buildings | concretes | embassy | construction | investigation | masonry | steel structures | structural systems
- Identifiers
- Moscow
- Abstract
- Public Law 99-591, The Continuing Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 1987, directed the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) to conduct an independent analysis of the new United States Embassy Office Building being constructed in Moscow. The analysis was to include "...an assessment of the current structure and recommendations and cost estimates for correcting any structural flaws and construction defects..." This report summarizes the investigation, which included field, laboratory and analytical studies, and its findings. The investigation has identified important structural defects in the building and defined remedial measures to correct them. While important, these structural defects, in comparison to the total structural system for the building, are modest in scale and fully correctable.