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In June 2021, a condo building called Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida collapsed, killing 98 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condomini
by csours 4y ago
In June 2021, a condo building called Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida collapsed, killing 98 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse
This prompted a huge flurry of investigations and inspections. (See "Building Integrity" on YouTube for a particularly good series)
Turkey has suffered thousands of Champlain collapses. I can't imagine that there will be enough resources to investigate each collapse at even 1% of the intensity that has been devoted to Champlain Towers.
- jacquesm 4y agoAnd even if they did have those resources quite a few of the possible outcomes of such investigations would be considered unprintable if you wanted to stay in your job (or even in Turkey).
- alkonaut 4y agoThere were quite a lot of videos from survivors of collapsed buildings now with testimony about blatant violations. For example stores opening in bottom floors who simply remove columned and load bearing walls to open up the store space. When the violations aren’t merely corner cutting or negligence during construction but that clear, then testimony, photos (from said store) should be pretty easy to find. The investigation obviously still needs to find who was responsible, but at least it’s just a legal investigation and not a technical one.