I’ve read interesting engineering, real estate and assorted speculation online today and nothing seems to click in my mind. If it’s about bad rebar and/or concrete and building materials, or construcing tall buildings on sand, this should happen more often. It doesn’t. What makes THIS building different from alllll the other tall buildings on the beach? Different enough to make it collapse? It’s just bizarre and freakish.
This particular building was the first one to be constructed after a moratorium on building was lifted in the late 70's. Water and sewer systems were a problem...and underground.
Maybe all the other buildings around it that were built after...were built with "lessons learned" from the first one after the upgrades?
Perhaps relevant, perhaps not. See #27