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.
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?
I agree. I don’t know the ins and outs of inspections but this is bad.
What’s even worse is Biden et al will use this to justify federal infrastructure and higher taxes when this is entirely a local fiasco.
Somewhat unbelievably, per FL state law, condominiums in this category only require a structural inspection every 40-years...
https://www.fox13news.com/video/948111
...this building was currently in the process of that inspection, which apparently can take a year to complete.
More problematically, the association apparently was aware of significant structural problems from 2018 and did nothing to remediate those problems.
“the city of Miami building inspectors and the Mayor need to be shipped out into the gulf in a leaky boat’”
why? the building was located in the city of Surfside,FL ...
This is what will happen with diversity jobs and those schools saying passing grades don’t matter and no white inspectors will be able to criticize shoddy work
Owners are responsible, not government flunkies.
Hyatt Regency skywalk’s collapse event showed that focus on building inspectors is futile and an incorrect waste of time. Owner’s and their designers and contractors are responsible for initial quality and sufficiency. Owners then are responsible alone for life cycle performance.
I worked on a project where they had to demolish a 12-story building that was only 8 years old. Somebody didn’t put a dab of epoxy on the ends of each exposed rebar and they rusted out.
I mentioned to a construction guy (my client) about that - how important even the least important task his.
“Well yeah - but his boss is supposed to check his work. And the project manager is supposed to review it. And the building inspector. So it wasn’t just the guy on minimum wage - it was at least three levels above him that weren’t doing their jobs.”
Oh - the building was a build/own thing - built by the Carpenter’s Union! They were going to use the rent to pay for pensions and stuff.