Engineer Warned of 'Major Structural Damage' at Florida Condo Complex

[Buckeye_Democrat]

58. That's not what I was referencing.

I was referring to the section closer to the pool, with large orange tiles (or whatever) covering it. Gaze rightward away from the pool, and you see where it cracked and collapsed.

Until I later magnified the image, and saw some 'before pictures' too, my perspective was off. It's clearly just a pool deck of some kind.

What bothered me the most was no signs of horizontal support beams between the columns which busted through that deck. Yet that shouldn't be a problem since it wouldn't be expected to support much weight.

Then I saw some pics of the partial collapse within the parking garage at the ground floor, and I didn't see signs of horizontal support beams there either. I'm not a mechanical or structural engineer, and I've never even worked in building construction, but it struck me as odd compared to the taller buildings that I've observed in my area which have skeletons of thick steel.