Condo owners were facing $15M in assessments for building repairs
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Rescue workers search in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condominium on June 28 in the Surfside area of Miami.
By Casey Tolan, CNN
Condo owners in the South Florida tower that collapsed last week were facing assessments for millions of dollars worth of repairs with payments set to begin a week after the building’s deadly fall.
The Champlain Towers South condo association approved a $15 million assessment in April to complete repairs required under the county’s 40-year recertification process, according to documents obtained by CNN.
Town of Surfside hires structural engineer to study condo collapse
From CNN s Curt Devine
Allyn Kilsheimer, the structural engineer hired by the town of Surfside, Florida, to study Thursday’s condo collapse, said he has already begun examining the building and will use a meticulous, computer-assisted process of elimination to attempt to identify the causes of the disaster.
He explained his process.
“Generally speaking, you visit the site, you try to look at drawings to the extent they are available, you listen to all the clatter that happens when these things happen, and just keep that in the back of your head,” said Kilsheimer, the president of KCE Structural Engineers. “And then what I do is I come up with in my head a listing, based on my experience, of here are all the things that I think could cause this kind of a problem, and then you begin assessing all that information… and you eliminate those possibilities one at a time… and then as you’re doing this
Condo owners in Surfside building were facing assessments for $15 million worth of repairs
By Casey Tolan, CNN
Condo owners in the South Florida tower that collapsed last week were facing assessments for millions of dollars worth of repairs with payments set to begin a week after the building’s deadly fall.
The Champlain Towers South condo association approved a $15 million assessment in April to complete repairs required under the county’s 40-year recertification process, according to documents obtained by CNN.
The documents show that more than two years had passed after association members received a report about “major structural damage” in the building before they started the assessment process to pay for necessary repairs.
By Casey Tolan, CNN
Condo owners in the South Florida tower that collapsed last week were facing assessments for millions of dollars worth of repairs with payments set to begin a week after the building’s deadly fall.
The Champlain Towers South condo association approved a $15 million assessment in April to complete repairs required under the county’s 40-year recertification process, according to documents obtained by CNN.
The documents show that more than two years had passed after association members received a report about “major structural damage” in the building before they started the assessment process to pay for necessary repairs.
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