Kinda reminds me of the train crash in Atlas Shrugged. Musta been a hundred pages or so of detailed passing the buck and ‘doing ones job’. Ho how many died? Was it 360?
“a cosmetic restoration of the pool…”
I’m afraid the bid will probably come in a little higher than anyone expected. Especially now that they cannot even find the pool at this point.
(Too soon?)
That is some ugly cracked concrete with exposed rusting rebar. One should not even see the rebar.
The bridges were propped up by cribbing...broken concrete and exposed, rusted rebar.
Mostly IH-495.
Obviously the garage collapsed and took those towers build on top with it .
Seawater non stop for decades.
Not to worry, they’ll be hiring a Chinese engineering firm to bring it up to standard!
Top bad Miami never heard of “building inspectors.”
Anyone wondering what the pool rooms in the sister buildings look like? There are supposedly more buildings just like this one.
Building should have been immediately evacuated with damage like that. I’ve lived in Condos...the garage likely is owned by ALL owners (common area)...
Between the lawsuits, blame, recriminations, new inspections, and a ghastly process of farming out the repairs of the entire area to the lowest bidder, they may never recover from what happened. Building on the edge of any waterline is a dicey proposition, at best. The ocean is very unforgiving. I like it as much as the next person, but it’s a predator even in the most benign of settings. Give me a cabin on a mountaintop. I’d rather deal with the bears.
The problem is the architects. Modern buildings have zero redundancy. They show very little signs before they fail. I’ve seen intentional demolitions where the building won’t fall, or rolls over instead of collapsing. It is not that much more expensive to make a solid building. I blame the designers and the underwriters.
Looks like the Norfolk Scope parking garage.
Looking carefully at the surveillance video of the collapse, it should be noted that the collapse happened in three phases.
First, half the center second collapsed. This is the south facing part of the section, which was directly above parking space 78!
Second and in immediate succession, the north facing part of the center section was pulled down by the first collapse.
Last, the east section, which remained standing for mere seconds fell into the center section pile.
The video seems to correlate to the parking space location, the puddle and the progession of events.
I suspect were gong to hear much more about what was degraded and structurally compromised near parking space 78. My guess is the support pillars at that area are severely damaged and that the steel within was corroded beyond belief