There's New Evidence That The Surfside Condo That Collapsed Had Extensive Corrosion

[Jilly_in_VA]

Video released by a team of federal investigators shows more evidence of extensive corrosion and overcrowded concrete reinforcement in a Miami-area condominium that collapsed in June, killing 98 people.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology also announced Wednesday it will conduct a five-pronged investigation into the Champlain Towers South collapse, which will be led by Judith Mitrani-Reiser. She is a Cuban-born engineer who grew up in Miami.

"We are going into this with an open mind and will examine all hypotheses that might explain what caused this collapse," Mitrani-Reiser said. "Having a team with experience across a variety of disciplines, including structural and geotechnical engineering, materials, evidence collection, modeling and more, will ensure a thorough investigation."

The video shows densely packed steel reinforcement in various sections of the building, along with extensive corrosion where one column met the building's foundation.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031245430/surfside-condo-collapse-corrosion

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Years of salt air exposure will do that....

Not to mention the rains from off shore storms.

No wonder the Golden Gate Bridge is always being worked over and still strong after 84 years.

[genxlib]

2. Wait for the report

Still a lot of back arm-chair quarterbacking going on here.

The NIST released a rather benign video showing what they were up to while offering absolutely no opinions at all. The media then took that to some structural engineers that offered opinions on what they saw in the video. Those people offering opinions are doing so on an extremely limited view of the site and without any real data. Take all of it with an enormous grain of salt because they have very limited ability to make any comprehensive judgements.

I worked pretty closely with Judith Mitrani-Reiser highlighted in the video. When she spoke of working with the Engineers with the Search and Rescue Teams, I was one of them.

In case you haven't seen my earlier threads https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215607522