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by sd9 900 days ago
Makes sense, so this is confounded by the number of people in the building.

30% for a CC3 seemed high to me initially (hence wondering if 0.3 really meant 0.3%). But since it actually means "in 30% of structural failures in CC3 buildings (e.g. a stadium), at least one person dies", it make much more sense because there are probably lots of people in the stadium.

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I agree, it would likely have extremely diminishing returns in terms of lives saved to have more stringent safety requirements. Needs to be a balance after all.