[rxsid]

Related: Engineer Warned of ‘Major Structural Damage’ at Florida Condo Complex

FIU professor: Collapsed Surfside building showed signs of subsidence in ‘90s (Champlain Towers - Miami)

[rxsid]

Ping!

Developers of doomed Fla. tower were once accused of paying off officials: report (Champlain Towers - Surfside)

[dfwgator]

Building rivals claimed that the partners behind Surfside Champlain Towers South were receiving preferential treatment when it came to getting through the permit system as the site was being built in 1981, the Washington Post said.

Ahhh, so it was DeSantis' fault. /s

[Red Badger]

Florida Ping!..................

[kiryandil]

This is typical "tunnel vision" "reporting".

Where are their other buildings?

Anybody else do the same thing?

These kind of garbage articles aren't worth a pinch of Mitt when it come to figuring out what's going on.

[nuconvert]

Makes you wonder about any other buildings in the area with ties to these developers

[wardaddy]

40 YEAR OLD OCEAN FROMT BUILDING

COME ON MAN!

[Fido969]

From another post:

Miami is a Dem city, and so you can expect is rife with corruption:

https://www.miamidadeig.org/inspector-general/investigations.page

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/04/11/fbi-arrest-multiple-inspectors-firefighters-and-cop-in-bribery-sting/

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1987-03-28-8701200265-story.html

https://www.miamiherald.com/article199290894.html

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-dades-most-corrupt-cities-ranked-10533469

[zeestephen]

How can a concrete deck building collapse straight down unless all the primary support columns fail at exactly the same moment?

The only way I know that can happen is if the support columns are wired with timed explosives.

Until someone comes up with a more plausible theory, this catastrophe still looks like premeditated terrorism to me.

[Colo9250]

“The developers of the Miami condo tower that collapsed were once accused of paying off local officials to get permits for the site — which needed $15 million in repairs just to bring it to code, a new report says.”

The developers paid off officials to get permits to build on a site that needed $15 million in repairs before the condos were built?

Wow those are some repairs, unbelievable or terrible writing but then it’s the Bezo Post.

[minnesota_bound]

You can trust that these guys built the towers with the best of equipment and material.... FTA: Reiber when he and his partners were accused of skimming cash from apartment buildings they owned. They allegedly skimmed tens of thousands of dollars from coin-operated laundry machines in the buildings and pocketed about $120,000 from phony construction checks, the Washington Post said.

[rxsid]

"Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed this damage in garage"

There was nothing unusual about the lobby and pool area at Champlain Towers South condo, which looked clean and well maintained to a commercial pool contractor who visited the building last Tuesday, just 36 hours before half of the building unexpectedly collapsed. Then, he saw the basement-level garage.

“There was standing water all over the parking garage,” the contractor, who asked not to be named, told the Miami Herald. He noted cracking concrete and severely corroded rebar under the pool.

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.

While he had worked in the industry for decades and had “gone in some scary places,” he said he was struck by the lack of maintenance in the lower level. The amount of water at Champlain Towers seemed so unusual that the contractor mentioned it to a building staff member, Jose, who was showing him around.

“He thought it was waterproofing issues,” the contractor said of the staff member. “I thought to myself, that’s not normal.” He said Jose told him they pumped the pool equipment room so frequently that the building had to replace pump motors every two years, but he never mentioned anything about structural damage or cracks in the concrete above.

The deepest puddle of standing water, according to the contractor, was located around parking spot 78 — an area that building plans show is located directly under the pool deck where in a 2018 inspection report, engineer Frank Morabito had flagged a “major error” in the original design that was allowing water intrusion and causing serious damage to the structural concrete slabs below.

He did not photograph that standing water because he was there to examine the pool and what was underneath it.

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 (Seen below). 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.

“I wonder if this was going on in other parts of the building and caused this collapse,” he said.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article252421658.html

[mewzilla]

Global warming, my arse.

[rxsid]

Survivor describes escape from Florida condo collapse: ‘I kept going, screaming ... I want to live’ (escape took minutes)

It took several minutes for the building to fall with the final even seen in the video being that last several seconds.