Title - Cracks on LIC building not caused by metro work

CHENNAI: The Life Insurance Corporation building on Anna Salai is safe, an IIT Madras team that inspected cracks on the building has said. The checks followed claims that digging by metro rail using heavy equipment near the landmark building had caused the cracks.The report by some IIT-M professors said the cracks existed since long and were plastered over before metro started work."Fresh cracks did not develop. All visible cracks existed on the building before a vibro hammer was used. Subsequent opening of the cracks were because of structural reasons including vibration," says the report, according to a CMRL official.It also says that vibrations from the work site have not transferred to the building.