{"id":13343,"date":"2021-06-26T14:38:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13343"},"modified":"2021-06-26T16:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:06:43","slug":"condo-shortcomings-documented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13343","title":{"rendered":"Condo shortcomings documented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know?  A structural engineer had documented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/26\/us\/miami-building-collapse-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">widespread defects<\/a> 3-years before the condo collapse that has left on the order of 150-people unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Three years<\/span> before the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex near Miami, a consultant found alarming evidence of \u201c<SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">major structural damage<\/span>\u201d to the concrete slab below the pool deck and <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">\u201cabundant\u201d cracking and crumbling of the columns, beams and walls<\/span> of the parking garage under the 13-story building.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the slightest difficulty believing this, because during my years in Florida I was sometimes among the engineers issuing those warnings &#8212; and being ignored.  That &#8212; and the willingness of many engineers to turn a blind eye &#8212; had much to do with my decision to leave engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Expect more stories just exactly like this one as the&#8217;80s building boom matures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know? A structural engineer had documented widespread defects 3-years before the condo collapse that has left on the order of 150-people unaccounted for. Three years before the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex near &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13346,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions\/13346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}