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Nearly half a century has passed since the collapse of a Drug Enforcement Agency office in Miami killed seven people and drove changes to local building codes. The new regulations required owners to check buildings that reached 40 years old for signs of deterioration in a wet, salty, storm-prone climate.
The rules have largely served South Florida well, ensuring that building owners make repairs before small problems turn catastrophic. And yet these rules did not prevent last week’s collapse of Champlain Towers South. While the cause of the collapse remains under investigation, officials and experts are calling for an examination of the rules, and whether they need to be updated, after the failure of the 12-story condominium building that stood at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean on a barr
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Building official described condo in very good shape a month after engineers found major structural damage
Despite findings, former town building official said building was in very good shape
New details reveal a former town building official described Champlain Towers South in âvery good shapeâ after engineers found âmajor structural damage.â Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone explains and shares why neighbors are increasingly concerned about the safety of their own building
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New details reveal a former town building official described Champlain Towers South in âvery good shapeâ after engineers found âmajor structural damage.â Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone explains and shares why neighbors are increasingly concerned about the safety of their own building
Charles Burkett saying he wouldn t sleep there. If you ask me if I would want to spend the night in that building, I would not be willing to do that, Burkett said over the weekend.
Residents who wish to leave their condos can get temporary housing through FEMA until inspectors deem the building safe.
Officials are still trying to determine what caused the 12-story building to collapse.
James McGuinness, the town s building official, told residents that he had inspected the construction on the building s roof about 14 hours before the collapse and didn t see any red flags. There was no inordinate amount of equipment or materials or anything on that roof that caught my building official s eye that would make it alarming as to this place collapsing, McGuinness said.