A commercial pool contractor indicated where he saw serious corrosion in the Champlain Towers South pool equipment room in a photo he took two days before the building collapsed. COURTESY
Posted on 06/28/2021 6:58:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The contractor visited the condo building last week to put together a bid for a cosmetic restoration of the pool as well as to price out new pool equipment — a small piece of the multimillion-dollar restoration project that just was getting underway at the 40-year-old building.
In the pool equipment room, located on the south side of the underground garage, the contractor saw another problem — exposed and corroding rebar in the concrete slab overhead. He snapped some pictures and sent them to his supervisor along with a note expressing concern that the job might be a bit more complicated than expected. He worried they would have to remove pool pipes to allow concrete restoration experts access to repair the slabs.
The building caved in two days later, before they had time to complete their bid.
A commercial pool contractor indicated where he saw serious corrosion in the Champlain Towers South pool equipment room in a photo he took two days before the building collapsed. COURTESY
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The location of the deep pool of standing water and cracked concrete and corroded rebar in the garage of Champlain Towers South condo, as pointed out by a pool contractor who toured the property two days before the collapse. EDUARDO ALVAREZ
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Kinda reminds me of the train crash in Atlas Shrugged. Musta been a hundred pages or so of detailed passing the buck and ‘doing ones job’. Ho how many died? Was it 360?
11 so far and about 150 missing.
“a cosmetic restoration of the pool…”
I’m afraid the bid will probably come in a little higher than anyone expected. Especially now that they cannot even find the pool at this point.
(Too soon?)
That is some ugly cracked concrete with exposed rusting rebar. One should not even see the rebar.
the city of Miami building inspectors and the Mayor need to be shipped out into the gulf in a leaky boat’
This is a major city and it’s supposed to take care of building codes and inspections. I bet someone was being paid off to look the other way..remember that bridge that collapsed there in Miami and it was found out the city gave the contract to an all female company to show they’re woke or fill a quota and digging into the company it was found out they were not competent.
The bridges were propped up by cribbing...broken concrete and exposed, rusted rebar.
Mostly IH-495.
Who will be sued?
I’ll be driving on I-495 on Thursday. Thanks! LOL
Obviously the garage collapsed and took those towers build on top with it .
Seawater non stop for decades.
Not to worry, they’ll be hiring a Chinese engineering firm to bring it up to standard!
Top bad Miami never heard of “building inspectors.”
Who will be sued? The 5 surviving condo board members and the building owners
That is a really ugly comment.
Just curious why a city is responsible for the buildings owners. condo is a complicated ownership structure and can be very political but. is a city really responsible to keep the owners personal buildings up and running safely?
+1
Well, we’ll see. Condos are typically owned. As another Freeper pointed out, residents seldom attend association meetings. With condos being owned, I’m assuming that the building belongs to the residents. I just wanted to see who you thought could be sued.
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