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They haven't come out and said it but the race to drop the still-standing building portion pretty much makes this a recovery.
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Interesting article. It shows the challenge of community management in that people will have different philosophies, and some people will never approve anything because they think they can freeload. The people who were blocking those repairs have a lot of blood on their hands if they're still alive. I was briefly the president of a small condo association, and my wife and I bailed pretty quickly and moved. A majority of residents treated it like an apartment complex, and 20 percent of the homeowners did 95 percent of the work. We also had to do an assessment to do a major boiler repair. We had a small reserve that was enough to fund it, but we had to rebuild the reserve. I remember having a resident who resisted it, saying, "The reason we have a reserve is to cover expenses like a boiler. Why should I have to pay just to rebuild the reserve?" Well, duh.
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07-04-2021, 09:58 PM | #109 |
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I'm sure the survivors will have a lot of guilt. But nobody told them, as the entire article made clear several times, that the building was in any danger of collapsing. I'm not sure a condo association is really up to the task of taking on repairs of this magnitude. You have some people on fixed incomes and others figuring they will sell their unit soon so they will oppose expensive repairs. They aren't typically engineers or finance experts or management experts. Sure the state/city could eventually force them to evacuate, if they have the political balls. But that screws the other owners. You really want repairs in a timely manner when they are less costly but I don't see the government taking on that roll. By the time the structure is compromised to a safety it-might-really-fall-down, repairs are probably going to be hugely expensive. Remind me not to buy a high rise condo in Florida. Hell, I don't even want to be part of a HOA. Just live in a decent neighborhood with a functional local government.
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All of the new homes since then look like bare bones skyscrapers with the all of the steel girders used for framing. One of the new 10 story hotels going up down the street is all steel girder framing. It’s crazy to see at a distance or up close because it looks so overbuilt, especially for ten stories, but it’ll never come down on its own. |
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Just saw a report that this was a water issue. Lack of proper drainage around the pool and parking garage caused excessive spalling in the concrete/rebar. Over time everything becomes weak and finally fails.
The parking garage and pool equipment were underground and surface water soaked all things structural. Even concrete and rebar fail when constantly exposed to water. |
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It sounds like the board was trying to get repairs and was being blocked by voting. Repairs only get more expensive over time, though. I've briefly pondered downsizing to a condo when I retire, but this is reminding me that I don't like how condos work organizationally. I'll just stay in my house.
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This dude says he is an engineer yet he is referencing the garage floor parking striping diagram. He needs to dig into the structural portion of the plans and column pier layout. Another thing I noticed is he seems to not realize the subsurface parking garage is separate from the tower. The tower would require larger load-bearing columns vs a parking garage not supporting the same load. As for concrete piers, there are bridges setting in water exposed to rivers and seawater standing near 100 years. If this guy is an engineer he should be ashamed to put out this video with not being there relying on pictures and videos. How about waiting for the facts from real experts looking over inspection records examining rubble and the steel reinforcement in the beams and columns. It will take some time but they will figure it out maybe he is right.
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I think his analysis might be right even without being there. We know the first thing to fail was the parking garage under the pool area. The woman who called her husband in a panic thought it was a sinkhole. It took a few minutes for the rest of the structure to collapse. The parking garage extended under the main structure that failed like a bunch of dominoes from what I can see. Who knows? It will be interesting to see the final outcome. |
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Those tower columns would be larger and is why I called the tuber out showing the parking striping layout. A structural engineer would be scanning structural pier layout plans for the tower and garage. Well that's what a land surveyor would do since its guys like me who set the control and layout the piers
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our dogs are family to us. If it’s my condo still standing. I’d like them to check if my dog was alive in my condo before blowing up my condo. Infrared scan should do it?
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