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To: TobagoJack who wrote (174102)	7/1/2021 8:00:24 PM
From: sense	Respond to of 218910

One of the more amazing aspects of it... is that it is a serially repeating issue... seems it never goes away. I have an old novel from the late 1800's that was written about vacationers from the north staying in what were then the luxury high end of winter season vacation hotels... at the end of the railroad... somewhere near Jacksonville... with risky detours taken through the rough to get to St. Augustine. It was already an issue back then...

To: TobagoJack who wrote (174102)	7/3/2021 7:37:20 PM
From: sense	2 Recommendations Recommended By Pogeu Mahone SirWalterRalegh Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218910

An engineer's analysis of the evidence in the collapse of the Miami condo: Summary seems it is... architects got it wrong... certainly in that they failed to properly slope structures to shed water... and from the photos, it looks like the primary support columns were either inadequately designed for the loads on them, or else they were not properly constructed to match the engineering requirements... Water damage had occurred... was identified as an "exponentially growing" risk... as a part of a "re-certification" process to extend the buildings life... but that was found three years prior to the collapse, and nothing had been done about it... Problems had been identified... plans were being developed... preliminaries addressed... but nothing was done to timely correct the known issues... at least it was not happening quickly enough to stop the collapse... or get the people out of harm's way before it happened... It "should" result in a review of large building construction state wide... to check that supports are adequate to the loads carried... that slopes shed water... that risks identified are being elevated for urgent action when they are identified... Certainly should mean reviews of designs by that architect... and work done by those builders... but also of the functional failings of the local officials, who failed to follow up properly on identified risks... Will be interesting to follow up on this... as the news starts looking elsewhere... to see what if anything changes in result of it...