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Even if they had given the money, there’s no way the work would have been completed (or started, most likely) before the collapse. If anyone knew that the build

Even if they had given the money, there’s no way the work would have been completed (or started, most likely) before the collapse. If anyone knew that the building was in danger of structural failure it should have been condemned, not renovated with residents in place.

shagie 5y ago
In the "everything's rosy" universe where things go the right way, they would have had an engineer come out and start looking and then say "everyone get out." Unfortunately, this isn't the "everything's rosy" universe. --- That money... its about $120k/unit in the condo. You can get a condo on Miami Beach for $225k. Some digging on Zillow suggests that a condo built within the last 20 years will get you into the $450k range without difficulty and very easy to go beyond that. There are other things coming to light too... like they added a penthouse ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/miami-area-condo-that-collapsed-skirted-local-codes-with-penthouse-11624902548 https://www.wsj.com/articles/miami-area-condo-that-collapsed... ) > The tower’s rooftop apartments would have added significant weight but they were accounted for in the revised design, said Roberto Leon, a professor of construction engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, who reviewed the building plans. > The structural plans show that the size of the columns and reinforcements would have been typical for that time, and the roof would have had limited ability to redistribute the building’s load if one of the columns were to fail, he said. > That could mean a failure in one column could bring down an entire structure, which could have been what occurred with this building, Mr. Leon said.
- imtringued 5y ago
  It's weird. People want destiny/karma to be real so they blame a random pool worker even when the truth isn't incompatible with destiny/karma. This is not an example of a random collapse. It is an example of what happens when you do absolutely everything wrong.

shagie 5y ago

In the "everything's rosy" universe where things go the right way, they would have had an engineer come out and start looking and then say "everyone get out." Unfortunately, this isn't the "everything's rosy" universe. --- That money... its about $120k/unit in the condo. You can get a condo on Miami Beach for $225k. Some digging on Zillow suggests that a condo built within the last 20 years will get you into the $450k range without difficulty and very easy to go beyond that. There are other things coming to light too... like they added a penthouse ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/miami-area-condo-that-collapsed-skirted-local-codes-with-penthouse-11624902548 https://www.wsj.com/articles/miami-area-condo-that-collapsed... ) > The tower’s rooftop apartments would have added significant weight but they were accounted for in the revised design, said Roberto Leon, a professor of construction engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, who reviewed the building plans. > The structural plans show that the size of the columns and reinforcements would have been typical for that time, and the roof would have had limited ability to redistribute the building’s load if one of the columns were to fail, he said. > That could mean a failure in one column could bring down an entire structure, which could have been what occurred with this building, Mr. Leon said.

imtringued 5y ago
It's weird. People want destiny/karma to be real so they blame a random pool worker even when the truth isn't incompatible with destiny/karma. This is not an example of a random collapse. It is an example of what happens when you do absolutely everything wrong.