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I've not seen in any news reports, nor does this BBC article mention, if the deterioration noted by the previous engineering reports were actually in the part o
by bradfa 5y ago
I've not seen in any news reports, nor does this BBC article mention, if the deterioration noted by the previous engineering reports were actually in the part of the building which collapsed or not. If anyone can point to a diagram or other notation in the media which shows a correlation between where the building collapsed and where the engineer(s?) noted the issues were, I'm interested in seeing that.
I understand that failures in one part of a structure may cause a catastrophic failure in a separate, seemingly far away, part of the structure. But it feels like if the engineer(s?) reported that things needed to be fixed quite soon and then that part of the building is what failed that the media would have pointed this out by now.
- Hamuko 5y agoI think the theory is that the initial collapse happened around the pool deck/parking garage area, where concrete deteriation was initially observed. Then after that area caved in, it caused the building area next to it to pancake. >Appearing to reinforce the experts’ theory is the story of a resident who called her husband moments before the collapse to tell him she could see a crater in the pool area from the fourth-floor balcony of their ocean-front apartment. Then the line went dead, said Mike Stratton, who was out of town at the time. His wife, Cassie, is among the 156 people who are still unaccounted for. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article252396233.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/...