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This is an excellent presentation of the engineering analysis of the Surfside Condo / Champlain Tower collapse in Miami June 24, 2021.

• tssva 5y ago
  The residents of Champlain tower have filed a lawsuit against the condo association and the developers of a recently built building next door. In the lawsuit they allege and present evidence that damage caused by construction on the adjacent property contributed significantly to the collapse. Whether the claims are valid I am not qualified to judge, but the lack of any analysis of the possible role it played seems to render this a less than excellent engineering analysis.
  • ejb999 5y ago
    >> In the lawsuit they allege and present evidence that damage caused by construction on the adjacent property contributed significantly to the collapse. Which is pretty much the same thing the developers/owners of the millennium tower in San Francisco are claiming - but to me that holds no weight. When you build a building, you can't just assume that nobody is going to do nothing nearby you for the next 100+ years - the building design should account for that; seems to me they are passing the buck, or at least trying too.
  • toast0 5y ago
    This analysis is centered on the mechanism and timeline of collapse, with nothing to say about the direct cause. It appears from this analysis, IMHO, poor design and build, an apparent lack of code enforcement, and poor maintenance and repair led to the building collapsing within minutes of the pool deck failure. There's still room to consider the factors leading to the pool deck failure; although certainly the previous factors would be part of that too.