Skyline Plaza
Tower complex at Bailey’s Crossroads, Fairfax County, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete’s Greatest Weakness | Wesley Crump | setting | 1973 collapse from under-cured concrete. |
Concrete’s Greatest Weakness — Wesley Crump (2025)
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On March 2, 1973, the Skyline Plaza tower was under construction in a suburb of Washington, DC.
- Role: setting
- In the article: The article opens with the 1973 collapse of the tower under construction, after shoring was removed from concrete that had not cured, and returns to it as the case that testing field-cured samples could have caught.
- Why it matters: The cautionary case that frames the whole argument about concrete curing time. The text says only ‘a suburb of Washington, DC’; Bailey’s Crossroads comes from Wikipedia.