Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Tweets Of The Day

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  1. AnonymousJune 29, 2021 at 11:29 AM

    Found on the net

    "Just an educated guess: From my understanding one corner of the collapsed section had been observed sinking or more likely settling since early 90’s. The high rises in that area are built on coral not limestone. Also sink holes that close to the beach would be extremely rare. As a structural engineer my hypothesis is that something has caused that coral to shift or erode over many years which caused a weakening of the support pillars ultimately leading to the tragedy we see today. The footings and pillar support in a building with that kind of soil composition will be multiple 10s of feet deep. Once the shifting starts you have structural damage. If true that the corner had “sank” there isn’t any justified reason it hadn’t been secured. It would have been a very expensive repair and might have made more sense to demo building."

    Bulldawg8585

    Listen to the civil and construction engineers. Especially the ones, who know something about coral.

    Sad event A woman called her husband about a sinkhole next to the pool. Very sad. Line got cut.

    18 Report Noted 'Major Structural Damage' at Surfside Condo - Newsmax

    "The release of the 2018 cost estimate followed the earlier publication of another document from the firm showing the ground-floor pool deck of the building was resting on a concrete slab that had “major structural damage” and needed to be extensively repaired. That report also uncovered “abundant cracking and spalling” of concrete columns, beams and walls in the parking garage."

    "The earlier report said the waterproofing under the pool deck had failed and had been improperly laid flat instead of sloped, preventing water from draining off."

    Water is not the friend of structures.

    I fail to understand the lack of urgency among the tenants. The repairs would have been $1000,000 or $125,000 per unit. A lot of money, but what are their lives worth? Unless they were keeping up with the Joneses, they would have had the money I think.

    Maybe they did not understand the inspection report?

    The report say several serious structural problems. I think that is the problem. the auditing firm and others are hedging. They are hiding behind adjectives. What does serious mean? They need to give percentages or something people can start calculating. Everyone knows percentages whether they admit it or not.

    Seriously, if people did not understand percentages to some degree what is with all the fantasy football teams?

    Inspection report was written wrong IMO. But it was industry standard boilerplate.

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  2. AnonymousJune 29, 2021 at 11:43 AM

    Gregg Schlesinger -attorney specializing in construction defects & former construction project engineer


    He is a person to whom to listen.

    The whole bit about the epoxy gives me a bad feeling. It might slow corrosion a little bit, but it is like using duck tape for a structural problem. Duck tape works on a lot of things and McGyvers them for a good long while. Structural columns is not one of them. Epoxy is about as useful as duck tape.

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