HOW DARE YOU MAKE REGULATION A POLITICAL MATTER!
With the sea water rising this is likely not the last imo. Places will ignore it until things like this happen.
So much this. Florida (or at least Miami) has whole sections that are literally sinking into the ground and regulators will react to each weekly disaster with surprisedpikachu.jpg and thoughts & prayers.
How exactly do you fix this if you find out the rebar is severely rusted? From what I read if only one column gives way thatâs enough to cause this entire collapse. So itâs not like you can just replace the column w/o also propping up the entire building. I think they have to somehow use outside supports around the column?
No matter what itâs a massive job.
Going to be some cheap condos in Florida soon, do your research retireesâŚ
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Those are the same people that went back to work in the 2nd tower after the 1st one was hit.
IMNAE but I was involved in a construction project where the concrete guy used rebar #3 when the plans called for rebar #5, which is bigger/stronger. It was new construction on a 7 story mixed used building. They didnât discover it until 6 stories were built. The engineers brought in to fix it added support columns in the basement parking garage to shore it up for additional support, losing a bunch of revenue generating parking spaces. Needless to say folks were less than pleased but a fix was implemented.
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Ben Shapiro has the solution
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So, Champlain Tower South is Americaâs Grenfell.
Investigation gonna turn up a shitload of cheap parts, building violations, and no upkeep.
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To be fair, do these residents really have much to fear if their buildings donât have similar flooding and rotting issues?
Itâs not like the problems in the collapsed building werenât known to the residents long before the collapse.
I donât think Iâve ever heard Shapiroâs voice before, itâs about 110% of what I would have guessed.
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Same design same materials same developers. Probably same representative that said the other was fine recently. Iâd be gone.
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in this case, though, the people responsible for the upkeep are the residents themselves, as they own the units. The condo board certainly knew about the maintenance issues and chose to downplay them because maintenance levies are extremely unpopular with the voters.
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When buildings are built are there maintenance and upkeep schedules for the structural integrity.
yes and people love to cut corners on those schedules and the normal association fees wonât be enough for a huge overhaul that would be needed when youâve been cutting corners for 40 years.
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Money launderers. They buy but donât live there. The empty buildings collapse. Insurance companies pay off. Insurance rates rise. Housing prices go up. Everybody who matters wins.
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Is there anything more American than kicking the can down the road so somebody other than you has to deal with the consequences?
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