>>Is there actually bedrock to anchor the building?
I was involved with a 15 story hotel project in Fort Lauderdale about 30 years ago as a young engineer. The structural engineer drove about a zillion piles that were 30’-40’ long. A typical column would get a 3x3 array of precast concrete and steel piles, that would get tied together at grade with a concrete pile cap, and then the building column would go up from there. The piles were basically about getting enough friction shear to support the building.
There’s no bedrock to be found.
Nothing’s perfect, though bedrock would be preferable to sand. What kind of cataclysm would be needed to knock that hotel over?
So, post hurricane, it might resemble the leaning tower of SoFlo?
Coool.