Florida Condo Collapse Could Prompt Awareness Effort For Local Buildings - Honolulu Civil Beat Florida Condo Collapse Could Prompt Awareness Effort For Local Buildings The director of Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting said it is too early to say whether what happened near Miami could happen in Hawaii. Reading time: 2 minutes. As engineers in Surfside, Florida, try to figure out what caused half of a luxury condo tower to collapse there, officials in Honolulu said it is far too early to say what risks Hawaii’s condos might face. “We are hesitant to speculate on whether what happened in Florida could happen here because the cause of that tragic incident has not yet been determined,” Dean Uchida, director of the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting, said in a written statement. “Media accounts point to the structural integrity of that building, as well as it being built on fill area, but it could be a combination of both, or something that hasn’t yet surfaced.”