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Originally Posted by srvy
The garage would be built under and around the tower but still independent structures. The structural column piers for the garage could be nearly butting up to structural column piers of the tower but never attached together. They are separate standing structures. This allows for any movement in the wind or expansion-contraction. I suppose the garage could fail kick and crack a tower column causing failure to the tower but I would think the opposite would be more likely.
Those tower columns would be larger and is why I called the tuber out showing the parking striping layout. A structural engineer would be scanning structural pier layout plans for the tower and garage. Well that's what a land surveyor would do since its guys like me who set the control and layout the piers
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Fair points, but not necessarily true. We build quite a few podium structures with integral parking structures and they are not necessarily independent structurally.