Collapsed Surfside Towers Broke Building Code From The Very Beginning

[DinahMoeHum]

https://www.curbed.com/2021/08/miami-condo-collapse-structural-flaws.html#comments

For over a month, crews worked to recover survivors and then the dead from the collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida. The 98th and final victim was identified only two weeks ago. During the same period, forensic engineers have combed through the debris of the 12-story condominium tower, searching for the reason for the building’s sudden, catastrophic failure. Now a report in the Miami Herald based on interviews with engineers and construction experts has pinned the cause on multiple, extensive structural flaws that existed in the building for 40 years.

If you cannot access The Miami Herald in full because of the paywall, go to their Twitter account and scroll down:

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This is part one of a series "Anatomy of Collapse" that The Miami Herald intends to publish over the next few days/weeks.

[Hortensis]

1. Big surprise - not. Calamitous building collapse is not just

slightly unusual in our country.

[North Shore Chicago]

2. Greed over human lives.

THIS is your brain on republican.

[sop]

3. And if anyone thinks Champlain Tower was the only shoddy building put up by corrupt developers,

they're whistling past the graveyard. South Florida is full of poorly constructed structures along the coast. We saw this same sort of investigative reporting in the Herald after Hurricane Andrew nearly thirty years ago.