Items Tagged with 'NIST condo investigation'

Federal investigators found that the Champlain Towers South collapse likely began after a failure in a pool deck slab-column connection.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology expects to publish a draft report on its investigation in May 2025.

The as-built condition of rebar in slab-column connections did not match the design drawings, NIST investigators say.

Probe of the 2021 Surfside, Fla., condo collapse by federal investigators highlighted apparent problems with the pool deck among the hypotheses they are exploring.

National Institute of Standards and Technology investigators will take hundreds of samples from physical evidence collected at the collapse site in Surfside, Fla.

National Institute of Standards and Technology investigators aim to have a final report, including recommendations for changes to building codes and standards, by the end of 2024. 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has added a remote sensing and visualization project to its roster of queries into the June 24 partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South residential condominium in Surfside, Fla., which killed 98 people.

Building officials of Miami-Dade County suspect deferred maintenance rather than weak building codes or an inadequate 40-year recertification process required by the county was the likely reason for the June 24 building failure in Surfside, Fla. The partial collapse of the 40-year-old Champlain Towers South residential condominium caused at least 98 fatalities.