Miami Apartment Building Collapse. Many Killed Or Missing

MECH-lift

Union Brother ✊🧔 RPCD
I read when the structure was built in the 80s they used light weight counter tops and flooring. Then everyone got fancy and installed granite counter tops and heavy tile floor....may have been too much weight.....OR IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB
✊🧔
 

oldngray

nowhere special
Built on fill. Sinking for years.

That guy made a lot of assumptions with few facts. The building was sinking a couple of millimeters 30 years ago but he has no more recent dats on whether it was still sinking. A very likely possibility but need more facts and less guesswork. Almost certainly there had been problems for years that got ignored though.

It was built on fill? Aren't the codes for tall buildings there for the foundation to go down to bedrock?
 

Wally

BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
That guy made a lot of assumptions with few facts. The building was sinking a couple of millimeters 30 years ago but he has no more recent dats on whether it was still sinking. A very likely possibility but need more facts and less guesswork. Almost certainly there had been problems for years that got ignored though.

It was built on fill? Aren't the codes for tall buildings there for the foundation to go down to bedrock?
Most of Florida is built on fill I believe.
 

DriverNerd

Well-Known Member
The problem with Florida along the coast is that their "bedrock" is limestone (not something solid like granite) which is porous and lets water through. This is turn can either let water to the surface to damage foundations or can cause the rock to wash away/become damaged and collapse (causing a sinkhole).
 
Top