Federal investigation of Surfside condo collapse begins. Mayor says Miami-Dade won’t wait on reforms Douglas Hanks and Alex Daugherty, Miami Herald © Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS Part of the 12- story oceanfront Champlain Towers South Condo, with more than 100 units at 8777 Collins Avenue, in Surfside, Florida, collapsed early on June 24, 2021.
MIAMI The federal agency that pushed safety reforms after investigating the collapse of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in 2001 announced a similar probe Wednesday of the Surfside catastrophe an inquiry that will likely last years.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has been in Surfside since Sunday, and confirmed its plan to launch a full investigation with an aim of discovering what caused the Champlain Towers South building’s collapse and what changes in laws, building codes and regulations could be made to prevent another failure of that kind.
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