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Happened to this particular building. there is other building out there with engineering reports as they near their 40-year certification that reveal more drastic spalling and pitting, delapidation, rebar corrosion. we need to figure out what were all the factors that went into making this building fall, and we need to figure out exactly what happened. there's time to do that. right now, my board, we've been focusing -- the board of directors is focusing -- we still have an active rescue mission going on. the board hasn't lost hope that some of these people might be found. we have lots of year...

Evaluates damage to residential and commercial buildings. and architect kobi karp, whose firm specializes in rez sidenti developments and is based in miami. asher, we just saw photos taken 36 hours before this collapse. what did you see? >> we saw spalling, again, which is well documented. we saw significant spalling in some what looked like a beam below what i understand is the south end of the pool structure below that. and we saw evidence of spalling in other photographs in that inspection report. again, it was noted and it has been noted continuously that the spalling, alone, doesn't expla...

About that, but if somebody says the building might fall down, i think i care about that more than the fees. these pictures of the underground garage near the pool, the report of this guy seeing water, we haven't seen that seconded by anybody. but the types of spalling or cracks that you've seen, does any of this really raise your eyebrows, or is this what we're used to seeing and it just continues to be a mystery until you can get deeper down below the wreckage? >> in my opinion, the engineer who performed the 2018 investigation, he did a very good job in expressing that the building was in p...

This property which found major structural damage and abundant cracking and spalling of the concrete. this is a term some people refer to as concrete cancer. it happens a lot in human environments and salty environments. and there's a lot of concern about it. beyond that, there was concern about water seals on the building. the failed waterproofing is causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas. failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially, again, reference to that concr...

Is when we examine all the information. the physical evidence. we are going to start to see, better, much more clearly, what, specifically, what factors and multiple factors, likely, contributed to this issue. and -- and again, you know, it's not to say we're not looking at corrosion. trying to say, oh, spalling happens. of course, it's of concern but spalling, alone, and the extent that we are seeing here. it's still a puzzle. we really have to look at it and we have to examine more. >> what would cause -- if it was that column or a column like that, to collapse on itself? what could cause th...