An engineering consultant who examined the Miami-area residential building that partially collapsed early Thursday had warned in 2018 of “major structural damage” that informed …
An engineering consultant who examined the Miami-area residential building that partially collapsed early Thursday had warned in 2018 of “major structural damage” that informed plans for a repair project that were scheduled to begin soon. A 2018 structural report that was released by the town of Surfside on its website late Friday night, was conducted “as required by” the Miami-Dade County Code, which mandates that 40-year-old structures like the Champlain Towers South condominium complex undergo a recertification process. Frank Morabito, the engineering consultant who conducted the report, found “abundant cracking and spalling of varying degrees” in the “concrete columns, beams, and walls” of the ground floor parking garage. The report also included photos of cracks in the columns and “spalling,” or concrete tumbling, that had exposed steel reinforcements on the garage deck.
