FIU engineer explains complexity of investigation into Surfside condo collapse

The building gave plenty of warnings that it was deteriorating but humans ignored them. If structural repairs had been done in 2018 then maybe the building would still be standing. What needs to change is the time between major inspections and to impose very large penalties for not carrying out repairs.

Clear thinking and intelligence. How refreshing. Plus a great tie!

He makes very solid points.

The problem is ; There are many owners who don’t live in Miami and have a condo for investment ! Therefore they don’t know and are not involve in inspections !

Only reason i clicked on this video was because this guy has more hair on him than Fabio.

The word condominium comes from Latin. In Latin, it means to overcharge.

Yes building developers will scream loudly when structural costs go up. Some developers will do all that they can to make a building design the cheapest it can be. They don't want to hear about a little bit more cost just to increase safety. The same thing happens with construction inspection- for some types of structures we should get to the point of having the engineers who designed the building to do the full construction inspection, and this will cost a lot of money. Not knowing the exact trigger for the collapse, hopefully the evidence isn't completely destroyed by the collapse.

Smaller and less imposing buildings instead of the monstrous one's we have today.

Excellent explanation. Foundation is the number one of inspection in the complex building.

Excellent point about UHPC - at least in critical areas affected by corrosion .-

While you are looking at the shearwalls, please note there are no shearwalls in the east-west direction. How could this get by the City building department??? There is also a serious problem with punching shear which was not addressed in the original plans. No shear reinforcing was provided in the design. The sister building to the north most likely has the same problems.

If building is beautiful…..”who is the architect?”. If building collapsed……”who is the engineer?”

He has very good insight, we get our building code changes from failures in buildings, FBC was substantially improved in may area's after Hurricane Andrew.

Very good point of view & interesting.

Greed, corruption and cutting corners in plain disregard for safety.

Yes, it fell because of massive spalling through exponential rebar expansion in key places in the underground parking garage. Sheer incompetence by bldg management.

This Guy here is the one that came up with" The Collapse FIU Bridge Design"

I am affiliated with a major $23M refit down the road @ 72nd and Collins via the HOA board. We are 3 years, $18M, and 80% completed. 19 story condo building N.Beach The greatest impediment to getting our project going was 1/2 the owners. 1/2 our people wanted to pay the increased assessment and the others did not. It took a 2 year campaign within our condo building culture to prevail organizationally and start our repairs. The process is grueling. Certainly moving forward now for other buildings, repairs will be mandatory, and it should be!

Miami dropped the ball. People died because of this negligence. We need to restructure the system to make it safe to live in structures like this and have better inspections. God rest the souls of the people that passed 🙏😔❤

Love this guy's outlook, UHPC's, design for 8.0 Earthquakes, more Objective building design even when more $$$.