Apartment building near Miami partially collapses, emergency crews at scene

[dustymars]

...The report also uncovered "abundant cracking and spalling" of concrete columns, beams and walls in the parking garage. Some of the damage was minor, while other columns had exposed and deteriorating rebar. It also noted that many of the building's previous attempts to fix the columns and other damage with epoxy were marred by poor workmanship and were failing....

Sounds like this building was a disaster waiting to happen.
Wonder how many of the other buildings over there are in the same shape??


https://www.newsmax.com/us/surfside-con ... d/1026519/

 


 

This is scary stuff. Looks to me like there might have been some sort of corruption in the building inspector's office perhaps? 
 

 

Corruption in south Florida!  How dare you!  Al Capone went to corruption school there and graduated with honors.    
 

[Nyte_Byrd]

Florida family gets 16 calls from grandparents who remain unaccounted for in condo collapse

https://www.foxnews.com/us/surfside-16- ... ain-towers


Miami condo collapse: Death toll rises to 9, Surfside sister building to be probed by 'army of engineers'

https://www.foxnews.com/us/miami-condo- ... -engineers
 

[Canis Minor]

Unfortunately, identification is going to have to be done via DNA analysis. At this time those missing are likely all deceased. 

[Walt]

Salt water intrusion. 
 
 

[SurroundedByLiberals]

Building was built in 1981.
Connecting dots here:
   
    $108 Million in Miami Banks Traced to Drug Suspects
    June 7, 1980
   Suspected drug smugglers deposited about $108 million in Miami banks during a one-year period, according to a secret Treasury Department report that traces the flow of money from south Florida to Colombia.

    As I recall there was a huge amount of drug money filing bank vaults in the 1980's which also translated into a huge amount of construction.
 

[Hellsbane]

Building was built in 1981.
Connecting dots here:
   
    $108 Million in Miami Banks Traced to Drug Suspects
    June 7, 1980
   Suspected drug smugglers deposited about $108 million in Miami banks during a one-year period, according to a secret Treasury Department report that traces the flow of money from south Florida to Colombia.

    As I recall there was a huge amount of drug money filing bank vaults in the 1980's which also translated into a huge amount of construction.
 

 

And led to our current civil forfeiture laws.
 

[flaokie]

Salt water intrusion. 
 
 

 

Yep -- 

The basement turned into a salt water swimming pool.
 
The salt water got through cracks to corrode the re bar.

The building left standing didn't have the same problem.


 
 

[NCGal63]

Working in the construction industry for over 25 years and in my opinion they will not find "one" thing that caused this. I believe it was a combination of several things.
It doesn't have to necessarily be shoddy construction, sometimes materials themselves can be defective, and it is unlikely that a few visible cracks would have been an indicator
of a collapse of this magnitude. Engineers of buildings of this size take this all into account and have several safeguards built into the design. That doesn't however, mean the
contractor didn't take short cuts or pay off building inspectors ect. I think this was just a perfect storm of a combination of various random failures and land shifting.

[dustymars]

Another lawyers relief act.

[Hellsbane]

Salt water intrusion. 
 
 


 

Yep -- 

The basement turned into a salt water swimming pool.
 
The salt water got through cracks to corrode the re bar.

The building left standing didn't have the same problem.


 
 

 

Hard to believe we still can't buildem as good as the Romans.