A new federal report concludes that the Surfside, Florida, condo that collapsed in June 2021 began showing structural failure weeks before the building fell, according to multiple outlets. The report finds that two columns supporting the pool deck started to fail ahead of the total collapse. Investigators link the early failure to problems at two key connection points below the pool deck, where garage-column elements meet the structure carrying the deck. CBS and The Independent report that the onset of failure occurred about three weeks before the building collapsed. The New York Times similarly says the pool deck’s supporting columns began failing several weeks beforehand. The New York Post characterizes the same timeline as three weeks, and focuses on the garage column connection points as the key issue identified by investigators. Across reports, the shared account is that structural distress at the connections involving garage columns and the pool deck preceded the disaster, which killed 98 people. The sources present the findings as part of the ongoing federal investigation into the cause of the collapse and related building conditions.
Federal report: Surfside condo structure began failing weeks before 2021 collapse
A new federal report concludes that the Surfside, Florida, condo that collapsed in June 2021 began showing structural failure weeks before the building fell, according to multiple outlets. The report...
- A federal report says the Surfside condo began structurally failing weeks before the June 2021 collapse.
- Investigators identify two pool-deck supporting columns as central to the early failure.
- The likely problems start at connection points where garage columns meet the pool deck structure.
- Reports characterize the timeline as about three weeks or several weeks before the collapse.
- The collapse kills 98 people.
The report underscores findings that have trickled in since the 12-story beachfront condominium catastrophe
2 months agoFederal investigators concluded a structural failure occurred at two crucial garage column connections below the building's pool deck.
2 months agoA new federal report shows the likely cause of the 2021 Surfside condo collapse in Florida that killed 98 people. According to the report, the structure failures began three weeks before the building fell when two connections between garage columns and the pool deck gave way.
2 months agoTwo columns that held up the building’s pool deck began to fail several weeks before the 2021 collapse, according to a new federal report.
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