Florida legislators have enacted structural inspection requirements for most of the state’s multi-family residential buildings, reversing an earlier, unsuccessful legislative effort aimed at preventing a repeat of last summer’s deadly partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside.
The new requirement, which establishes a statewide two-phase building recertification process similar to those already in place in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, comes two months after the state House and Senate were unable to agree on legislative proposals containing similar language.