THE SURFSIDE CONDO COLLAPSE
Episode 223 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the June 24th, 2021 collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida — ninety-eight people killed when a twelve-story beachfront condominium fell in the middle of the night. A 2018 engineering report had warned of "major structural damage" to the concrete slabs beneath the pool deck, described deterioration that was "accelerating," and stated that failure to replace the waterproofing would cause the deterioration to "expand exponentially."
One month after that report, a town building official…
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