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Originally Posted by louie aguiar
How does this happen? There was no earthquake or natural disaster. Was this just a giant engineering/construction failure? So tragic…
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Poor construction/engineering quality.
Perhaps that isn't the cause with this building since it is a relatively older building (40 years old), but many of the condo buildings/towers that were built in South Florida during the housing bubble in the 2000's and even in today's hot real estate market are built very quickly with safety/quality corners cut.
I owned a condo property in a condo tower in Kendall/Pinecrest that was built in the mid 2000's and it was a nightmare of post-construction engineering defects that had to be corrected.
Post-tension cable repairs, cracks throughout the structure of the building, the pool, which is situated between the two condo towers essentially sinking into the parking garage below, etc.