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Surfside collapse was slow-motion failure weeks in making, report says
Two columns that held up the building’s pool deck began to fail several weeks before the 2021 collapse, according to a new federal report.
On the eve of the five-year anniversary of the Surfside condominium disaster , a new federal report reveals that the condominium collapse did not happen in an instant, but was rather the result of a slow-motion chain reaction that started weeks before the tragedy.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced Monday that the structural failure started earlier in June 2021 at two critical garage columns beneath the pool deck of Champlain Towers South. …
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