Shukov Tower will be dismantled, and during the reconstruction the metal will be replaced with a new one.
But according to candidate for technical sciences Mikhail Oritsky, about 70% of the original metal can be left in the tower. True, the project, which passed Glavgosexpertiza, offers a different figure: about 5-7% of the original buildings will remain in place of the tower.
According to Oritsky, in the seven years between the first survey and the second, the condition of the tower did not change. And there is no reason to believe that the dynamic changed dramatically later.
But the planning engineer Vladimir Trabush, who participated in the examination of the project, voiced the opposite position: "There is no need to preserve rusty metal. Our mission is to preserve Shukov's brilliant idea."
The fact is that the tower was assembled from 1919 to 1922 from the metal that could be found. The base has German profiles with Saxon factory markings, the rest is early Soviet era steel.