Miami Beach to have emergency inspections for 500 buildings near 40 years old

[DrSpag]

That's a lot of buildings and a lot of units. That's just Miami and not even counting all the similar structures in Broward, Palm Beach, and other counties that could be included eventually. Beach erosion, salt, wind, water, subsidence (settling/sinking) over decades. Who knows...slow insidious process. A lot of owners are thinking the same thing right now...

[logybogy]

Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed this damage in garage

There was nothing unusual about the lobby and pool area at Champlain Towers South condo, which looked clean and well maintained to a commercial pool contractor who visited the building last Tuesday, just 36 hours before half of the building unexpectedly collapsed. Then, he saw the basement-level garage.

“There was standing water all over the parking garage,” the contractor, who asked not to be named, told the Miami Herald. He noted cracking concrete and severely corroded rebar under the pool.

He also took photos, which he shared with the Herald.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...k=bignews_main

[City Guy997S]

Originally Posted by logybogy

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...k=bignews_main

He was there for bidding on the removal of the pool plumbing so the workers could fix the concrete. Pump rooms aren't fancy like the lobby, its just like a boiler room or any other commercial building's equipment room.

Headline talks about flooding in the garage but the worker didn't actually photograph it since it was outside the scope of his bid.

Could you imagine being there to bid the job as the building falls down above you!

[jayd42]

Originally Posted by Corrie22

Miami Beach elevation map > https://en-us.topographic-map.com/ma...3/Miami-Beach/

I'm zooming in all over! Thanks for the link.