Engineers believe a Miami condo that collapsed killing at least 24 residents may have been built using less reinforced steel than the plans called for – as officials planned to blow up the remaining wing with 121 people still missing.
Inspectors identified the issue at critical places in the base of the building in the first details about possible issues in the quality of construction at the 13-story Champlain Towers South in Surfside.
Forensic engineering expert Allyn E. Kilsheimer confirmed there were signs that the amount of steel used to connect concrete slabs below a parking deck to the building’s vertical columns may have been less than specified in the original drawings.
The entire OC Gold Coast is of similar construction and not even on bed rock. Just wait until the Carousel comes tumbling down. I am amazed Sea Colony in Bethany has held up this long. It looks like Soviet Brutalist Architecture and has not aged well and was not very attractive to begin with.