Florida requires milestone inspections for condo buildings three stories or higher and 30 yr or older, or 25 yr in some coastal municipalities.
Those requirements followed the Surfside collapse, which pushed Florida to take a closer look at the condition of aging condo buildings statewide.
In a recent federal finding, investigators said the initial failure started at two critical garage column connections beneath the pool deck area.
That initial failure triggered an undetected, slow-motion chain reaction, confirming what many engineers had long suspected about how the building came down.
Investigators found the pool deck slab warped and broke over 21 days, progressively shifting substantial weight onto adjacent columns as connections failed.
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