One year after 98 people died in the Surfside condominium collapse, officials say there’s still a long way to go to ensure the safety of other South Florida buildings.
In an aerial view, a cleared lot where the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building once stood is seen on June 22, 2022 in Surfside, Florida. This week marks the first anniversary of the tragic event where 98 people died when the building partially collapsed on June 24, 2021.in the early morning hours of June 24 -- but experts, officials, and those who lived through the disaster say there's still a long way to go to ensure the safety of other buildings in South Florida.
"I couldn't believe it. As a structural engineer, I could not believe that a building could just collapse without any external force," said Dawn Lehman, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Washington retained by the Miami Herald to help the newspaper investigate the collapse.
In an aerial view, a cleared lot where the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building once stood is seen on June 22, 2022 in Surfside, Florida. This week marks the first anniversary of the tragic event where 98 people died when the building partially collapsed on June 24, 2021.The town even offered inspections from Allyn Kilsheimer, a structural engineer based in Washington, D.C., who was hired to investigate the collapse and help assess the conditions of other buildings within town limits.
Moshe Schneider, president of the Marbella's condo board, told ABC News that ownership was able to work with various engineers to proactively find concrete structural damage and get it fixed. But Schneider said his building might be an exception. More needs to be done, he said, to make inspections and maintenance accessible and affordable to all building owners.
ABC News visited eight oceanfront buildings in Surfside during the spring, and found several property managers, building staffers and condo residents who said their building was on a waiting list for inspection, or that they were in the process of arranging to have the building inspected on their own.
Meischeid said nonprofessional condo board members are often reluctant to spend the money necessary to maintain their buildings. Kilsheimer, the engineer who's conducting a parallel investigation for the town, said, "I think we will be able to eliminate a number of causes," but "I don't know if we can ever get it down to a single cause."Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images, FILE
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