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And that they had a list of things they were going to be working on. how significant is it to find out exactly what it is that that engineer saw or what anybody studying this building saw? because would corrosion -- as the columns gave way, is corrosion like that very visible to the human eye? >> yeah. well, i mean, first of all, it's a 40-year recertification safety by the county in miami. it's one of the best practices in the world, by the way. you don't see that so often. >> these are tough standards that miami-dade county has? >> oh, yeah, most definitely. i think it's a really great pract...
>> subsiding. >> what we notice is the building was subsiding at the rate of 2 millimeter per year, which is pretty small. but it was noticeable because the rest of the area was pretty stable. >> you say it was noticeable. it's not noticeable to the human eye, 2 millimeters a year, it's noticeable through your instruments? >> exactly, and observation from space. so it's noticeable. other places moved, but in particular area, other building did move. it was a localized area of subsidence. we used the european space agency between 1993 and 1999. what we could report is about movement that happen...
Space and we looked at the movement of the air surface of the building. now, we don't like the term sinking because sinking is something that sink into liquid. we usually use the term subsiding. >> subsiding. okay. >> so, what we notice is that the building was subsiding. at a very -- at a rate of 2 millimeter per year, which is small but it was noticeable because the -- the rest of the area was very stable. >> you say -- you say it was -- you say it was noticeable. it's not noticeable to the human eye. i mean, 2 millimeters a year. it's noticeable, through your instruments? >> exactly. it's -...
At seaside because salt exposure is higher than the other side. and that's what you see in many, different places, especially the caribbeans. >> an attorney for the condo association had been on cnn saying that -- that they had had an engineer looking at the place. and that they had, in order for the 40-year certification and that they had a list of things that they were going to be working on. how significant is it to find out exactly what it is, that that engineer saw? or what anybody studying this building saw? because would -- would corrosion -- if what this is, is the columns gave way, is...