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Engineers cite possible design flaws as investigation stalls into fatal Florida condo collapse
On Monday, the
Miami Herald published findings that rule out the opening of a sinkhole as the cause of the horrific collapse of the condo tower on a beachfront in Florida in late June. “Scraped clean of tons of rubble…, the bare garage floor of Champlain Towers South appears to rule out at least one early suspect in its catastrophic collapse,” the article concluded. “There were no telltale signs of a sinkhole.”
Memorial and vigil wall set up in Surfside, Florida (Credit: WSWS Media)
The “sinkhole” that a doomed resident had identified in her final phone conversation was likely not the result of a sub-soil collapse beneath the building, but probably the first image of catastrophic failure in the concrete slab supporting the pool, the entrance and the first floor of the tower. Ironically, this was the structural element cited as the main cause for alarm in a consulting engi
What this concrete sample could reveal about condo collapse
By David Shortell and Rosa Flores, CNN
With his baseball cap and thick white beard, Allyn Kilsheimer could be mistaken for a retiree if it weren’t for the team of construction workers trailing him and the long metal pole he carried as he surveyed the ground floor outside of the Champlain Towers North building.
“Here, to here, to here, to here,” he told the workers, tracing a square along a support structure built out of the building’s facade to indicate where he wanted radar testing done that would show the arrangement of the steel reinforcement beneath the surface.
The evidence from the collapsed Surfside condo is growing by the day, but the investigation could take years
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A man places flowers in the memorial that includes pictures of some of the victims of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building on July 8.
By David Shortell and Rosa Flores, CNN
With his baseball cap and thick white beard, Allyn Kilsheimer could be mistaken for a retiree if it weren’t for the team of construction workers trailing him and the long metal pole he carried as he surveyed the ground floor outside of the Champlain Towers North building.
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A man places flowers in the memorial that includes pictures of some of the victims of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building on July 8.
By David Shortell and Rosa Flores, CNN
With his baseball cap and thick white beard, Allyn Kilsheimer could be mistaken for a retiree if it weren’t for the team of construction workers trailing him and the long metal pole he carried as he surveyed the ground floor outside of the Champlain Towers North building.
“Here, to here, to here, to here,” he told the workers, tracing a square along a support structure built out of the building’s facade to indicate where he wanted radar testing done that would show the arrangement of the steel reinforcement beneath the surface.