(Anyone here lives in highrise? In my opinion newer constructions are safer, but that's just my opinion)
Behind the upscale, beachfront facade of the Champlain Tower South Condo, hid a problem — one that investigators could take years to find — a ticking time bomb went off when the building collapsed on June 24.
Forty-eight hours after the Champlain Tower South Condo came crumbling down, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava ordered an audit of buildings of at least five stories that are due for their county-mandated 40-year recertification but haven’t received them. Some cities, including Miami and Sunny Isles, have taken similar steps.
“In an abundance of caution,” North Miami Beach on Friday ordered a 156-unit building be immediately closed and evacuated after an inspection found it to have unsafe structural and electrical conditions. The county also notified a Northeast Miami-Dade building that four balconies had to be “immediately closed” because of safety concerns, Levine Cava told reporters on Tuesday.
What other structural and maintenance issues are hiding behind facades that might look as “nice” as the Champlain Tower? Just asking that question might scare many building dwellers who just over a week ago never gave this issue a second thought.
The county has found there are 24 apartment or condominium buildings facing unsafe-structure violations for not securing their certification, the Herald’s Doug Hanks reported. That doesn’t mean they have structural damage such
