Officials are continuing to look into what could have caused the oceanfront residential building near Miami to collapse in 2021 and leave 98 people dead.
The mid-rise condo building that collapsed two years ago and left nearly 100 people dead in Surfside, Florida, had a defective and weak pool deck among other code violations, according to federal investigators.
Investigators presented their preliminary findings related to the Champlain Towers South collapse on Thursday to an advisory committee that , which is leading the probe. While officials are still looking into several hypotheses that could explain the cause of the deadly June 2021 collapse, investigator Glenn Bell said the building’s pool deck was especially egregious.“The conditions that existed in the pool deck slab at that time represented a serious safety concern for the building,” Bell said at the meeting.
The pool deck, which sat between the part of the tower that collapsed and the swimming pool, had a significant strength deficiency at and between many of its supporting columns. Investigators believe the deck’s design only provided half of the strength required under the original codes and standards.
Investigators are also looking into signs of corrosion in some parts of the deck’s steel reinforcement, which was buried deeper in the concrete slabs of the deck than the initial designs. There were also signs that the pool deck was showing distress before the collapse, including cracks in a planter and sagging concrete slabs, according to investigators.
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