What caused the implosion of Champlain Towers?

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Six engineering experts interviewed by the Miami Herald on Saturday said that based on the publicly available evidence — including building plans, recent inspection reports, photos of debris, an eyewitness, and a surveillance video of the collapse — a structural column or concrete slab beneath the pool deck likely gave way first, causing the deck to collapse into the garage below, forming a crater beneath the bulky midsection of the tower, which then caved in on itself.

Appearing to reinforce the experts’ theory is the story of a resident who called her husband moments before the collapse to tell him she could see a crater in the pool area from the fourth-floor balcony of their ocean-front apartment. Then the line went dead, said Mike Stratton, who was out of town at the time. His wife, Cassie, is among the 156 people who are still unaccounted for.

Greg Batista, a professional engineer who specializes in concrete repair and worked on the Surfside condo’s pool deck in 2017, said that the way the building fell points to an initial collapse in the pool deck area.




https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article252396233.html
 
Is there any doubt the US is a third world country? Profits are more important than people.
 
Everyone is a capitalist, and everyone is a socialist. It's a sliding scale, not a binary choice. This is, without question, an overall failure to address infrastructure issues. Still remember the 35W bridge collapse in Minnesota. This won't be the last.
 
Concart said:
Everyone is a capitalist, and everyone is a socialist. It's a sliding scale, not a binary choice. This is, without question, an overall failure to address infrastructure issues. Still remember the 35W bridge collapse in Minnesota. This won't be the last.
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Actually I agree that everyone is somewhere on that continuum. One problem certainly seems to be that these buildings don't get inspected until they are 40 years old??? That seemed crazy when I first heard it.
 
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Just go away. You are worthless.
 
Concart said:
Everyone is a capitalist, and everyone is a socialist. It's a sliding scale, not a binary choice. This is, without question, an overall failure to address infrastructure issues. Still remember the 35W bridge collapse in Minnesota. This won't be the last.
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A condo is not part of the infrastructure.
 
Yakuda said:
Actually I agree that everyone is somewhere on that continuum. One problem certainly seems to be that these buildings don't get inspected until they are 40 years old??? That seemed crazy when I first heard it.
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They are inspected regularly. The 40 year inspection is a major, comprehensive, and lengthen structural review that is focused on potentially catastrophic issues that develop over the space of decades because they take decades to develop. That inspection was in progress when the structure imploded.

Educate yourself: https://library.municode.com/fl/surfside/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICO_CH14BUBURE
 
The Anonymous said:



Six engineering experts interviewed by the Miami Herald on Saturday said that based on the publicly available evidence — including building plans, recent inspection reports, photos of debris, an eyewitness, and a surveillance video of the collapse — a structural column or concrete slab beneath the pool deck likely gave way first, causing the deck to collapse into the garage below, forming a crater beneath the bulky midsection of the tower, which then caved in on itself.

Appearing to reinforce the experts’ theory is the story of a resident who called her husband moments before the collapse to tell him she could see a crater in the pool area from the fourth-floor balcony of their ocean-front apartment. Then the line went dead, said Mike Stratton, who was out of town at the time. His wife, Cassie, is among the 156 people who are still unaccounted for.

Greg Batista, a professional engineer who specializes in concrete repair and worked on the Surfside condo’s pool deck in 2017, said that the way the building fell points to an initial collapse in the pool deck area.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article252396233.html
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We learned from the WTC collapse that just the weight of one floor falling onto another causes a chain reaction all the way up and down the structure.

Finding the weak spot now is going to be very difficult. They may never really find the support that failed that caused the whole structure to fail!
 
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