Design flaws in the pool deck of the Surfside, Florida, apartment building where a partial collapse killed 98 people put the building at risk of failure before it was even built, federal investigators say.
saltwater seeping into the building’s underground foundation, and that the building had slowly sunk in the 1990s.outlined Thursday showed that investigators consider the pool deck’s many defects as a leading hypothesis — among about two dozen — of what led a large section of the 12-story residential building to suddenly crumple in the middle of the night.
An “improper” placement of steel reinforcement in the pool deck slab weakened it, Bell said. Renovations loaded the pool deck with heavy materials, including planters, palm trees and sand, that the original design did not consider. Corrosion of the steel bars holding the concrete slab in place made the risk of failure higher, Bell said.
Investigators said they are also considering that the collapse might be due in part to design and construction deficiencies in the residential tower that led to supports being overstressed. They are looking into the possible effects of climate change, including whether it played a role in the upward pressure of water on the building’s basement slab. And they are analyzing changes to the concrete and soil.
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