Concrete buildings don鈥檛 just collapse out of the blue. Even earthquakes aren鈥檛 supposed to bring them down. So why did the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida 鈥� a modern structure built in 1981 鈥� fail?
- Sources:
- Quotes from the top half of pg 7:
"failed waterproofing is causing major structural damage"
"concrete slab is not sloped to drain... This is a major error in the development of the original contract documents prepared by [the architects]"
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