What Happened in the Surfside Condo Collapse?

Even earthquakes aren’t supposed to bring down concrete buildings. So how did the Surfside Condominium—a modern building built in 1981—fail?

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Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Laurence Vuckovic
Andrew Sobey
Darren Weaver
Elaine Seward

Host:
George Zaidan
Sam Jones, PhD

Writer:
Andrew Sobey

Scientific consultants:
Michelle Boucher, PhD
Maria Juenger, PhD
Brianne Raccor, PhD


Sources:
Champlain Towers structural field survey:
https://www.townofsurfsidefl.gov/docs/default-source/default-document-library/town-clerk-documents/champlain-towers-south-public-records/8777-collins-ave---structural-field-survey-report.pdf?sfvrsn=882a1194_2
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]"

Ex-Maintenance Manager for Surfside Condo That Collapsed Recalls Saltwater Intrusion
https://web.archive.org/web/20210629225013/https://www.newsweek.com/ex-maintenance-manager-surfside-condo-that-collapsed-recalls-saltwater-intrusion-1604508

Composition and density of nanoscale calcium–silicate–hydrate in cement
https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat1871

Steel Corrosion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/steel-corrosion

‘The building was in OK shape.’ The upscale condo near Miami Beach still collapsed.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article252325063.html

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