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
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