Partial Collapse of 12-story Condo Building in Miami

[Gman]

What a mess. Hard to believe something like this "just happens", but I guess our standard building codes prevent it from happening more often. Prayers go out to those folks.

Massive Search and Rescue Effort After Partial Collapse of Condo Building in Surfside

[Gman]

'Felt like an earthquake': Condo building partially collapses in Miami, spurring massive emergency response; at least 1 dead

[BladesNBarrels]

Salt air and concrete?

[Gman]

Was built in 1981. They're still not sure what may have caused it. That section of the building literally pancaked.

[Gman]

Video of collapse:
https://twitter.com/wsvn/status/1408054046808805379

[hollohas]

This is nuts. That video is wild to see. Professional demolition crews would be hard pressed to create such a clean collapse. That building must have had some serious structural flaws.

[00tec]

Doesn't look to be that old. Possibly 1981

[JoeRoss]

Video of collapse:
https://twitter.com/wsvn/status/1408054046808805379

WOW

[BushMasterBoy]

The rebar expands and cracks the concrete. They had to redo all the outside decks in the condo I lived in beachside Cocoa Beach. They replaced the rebar with coated rebar. I didn't need a alarm clock for months. At exactly 9AM the jackhammers would wake me. Living there was always a hassle. A high rise full of assholes basically. Some kid flushed his ball down the toilet, then the toilet started over flowing in my place. The maintenance guy was the only person who was cool. Then there were the hurricanes...

[O2HeN2]

Looks like that might have been the same kind of construction, causing the same kind of failure as the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Note: I'm not implying the apartment building was bombed. I'm just saying the same "self supporting" design that caused the Murrah building to fail all the way up when the lower floors were compromised might be at work here.

O2