Posted on 12/20/2024 7:30:42 AM PST by george76
Condos and hotels in Sunny Isles Beach, Surfside, Miami Beach and Bal Harbour are at risk..
Miami’s barrier islands are home to many tall luxury buildings .. about three dozen are sinking.
Thirty-five luxury condos and hotels across Florida's Sunny Isles Beach, Surfside, Miami Beach and Bal Harbour have faced subsidence in the past handful of years..
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The sinking of the high-rises amounted to 2-8 centimeters over a multiyear span running 2016 through 2023..
High-rises expect to see "up to several tens of centimeters" of settlement "during and immediately after construction," the University of Miami Rosenstiel School said ...
Builders constructed a "majority" of the affected condos and hotels after 2014,
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We found that subsidence in most high-rises slows down over time, but in some cases, it continues at a steady rate. This suggests that subsidence could persist for an extended period,
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The sinking "is primarily due to the gradual reconfiguration of the sand grains into a denser packing within sandy layers interbedded in the limestone" in the area, the study said.
The researchers hypothesized a link between construction-related vibrations or groundwater flow and the sinking, according to the study. Other things like daily tidal flow and stormwater injection could also have factored into the phenomenon.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
I believe we have officially adopted Metric.
Walk a mile in my shoe...... was always my favorite phrase when referring to adopting metric.
Later.
2.54
These are the same idiots who unaccountably change the names of places without any warning. Like suddenly a city that has been called Bombay for a century of more is suddenly “Mumbai.” Or Peking becomes Beijing.
Peking becomes Beijing.
I must've missed the official announcement. When did Metric become official in the USA?
When Germany becomes Deutschland and Finland becomes Suomi, I will take these clowns somewhat seriously.
u.s. switching to metric 2023
u.s. switching to metric 2023
And...what about the size and weight of the buildings?
There it is. Florida is going to tip over from all the illegals and globull warming.
The only Sunday school song I remember.
“You WANT your property manager to have a key - for too many reasons to list.”
I guess people of different definitions of privacy and security.
Put it this way - the first time some moron washes his hat in the sink and forgets it’s there - destroying all the units and chattel underneath - you and everyone else will be demanding a key rule.
That’s just one example.
There are cameras and trustworthy people. Nobody’s opening doors without need unless they like jail or worse.
Maybe if they didn’t put planters full of palm trees on the pool deck without any support underneath it wouldn’t have collapsed.
Hey, but that shaded pool area was really nice.
What are centimeters?
8 centimeters = 3.1496 inches
Are there no competent structural engineers any more?
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