16 Days Before the Surfside Collapse - The Warning Signs Were There

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  @BuildingIntegrity · 4 years ago · pinned

  I see a lot of comments/questions regarding spherical aberration or lense distortion causing the appearance of paver sag in the photos.  This was considered but not discussed in the video.  I found no other signs of lense curvature aberrations when I looked at other straight lines in the photos.  In addition, barrel distortion tends to be worse toward the perimeter of a photo with modern phone cameras, not toward the center.  Field distortion without barrel distortion is uncommon and I haven't seen this with other photos taken with phone cameras.  For reference, I am a landscape and architectural photographer in my spare time.  😀

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  @Daniel-213 · 4 years ago

  I'm a highrise window cleaner,and I'm on ropes every day on the side of condo's and I've seen and know of plenty of condos that have structural damage on the buildings,and I'm shocked that since this has happened that these condos are not addressed! I've turned down jobs because of how bad the damage is on the parapet walls,so bad that I do not trust the parapet to even hold my ropes!

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  @warrenSPQRXxl · 4 years ago

  Before I watched this series, I never paid much attention to concrete in parking garages but now I do.

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  @Gizathecat2 · 4 years ago

  If you can explain a structural engineering issue in a way a “normal human” can understand it, you’ve done great! I am not an engineer, I’m a nature photographer!

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  @jlangevin65 · 4 years ago

  I'm not an engineer but I'm a horticulturist with almost 40 years in the field and I would have dismissed offhand the suggestion that those Scheffleras could cause that much root lifting. Had there been trees there, or even larger shrubs with more massive roots it would be more likely, but not with that plant's root system.

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  @VincentHearne-m2n · 2 months ago

  MASSIVE GRATITUDE AND HONOR TO BUILDING INTEGRITY JOSH AND JEFFOSTROFF 💯

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• TI

  @tissuepaper9962 · 4 years ago

  The biggest thing this channel gets right is conveying that a building is essentially a machine with moving parts, not a static structure like most would imagine.

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  @StevePetrica · 4 years ago

  My late father was a civil engineer. Your analysis gives me a new level of respect for the work he did. Thanks for that.

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  @tuvela_thomas · 4 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;m really impressed by your recall of that photo. &nbsp;<br>That said, this video nearly has me in tears. &nbsp;There were warning signs. &nbsp;There were chances to get out ahead of this and stop it. &nbsp;Someone noticed new damage and was concerned enough to call the engineers to come out again. &nbsp;And that opportunity was missed.<br> &nbsp;I doubt there will be criminal charges unless it&apos;s shown that someone was intentionally hiding how badly this building had deteriorated.

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  @nycguy3652 · 4 years ago

  I an an architect with much experience on older existing buildings. I think that the design issue that hasn&apos;t been addressed enough is the lack of a functional building expsnion joint between the pool deck and the building at Surfside. The high rise building and the deck have fundamentally different loading and movement characteristics, even when new. The original design should have included a building expansion joint that would have structurally separated the residential portion of the building from the exterior deck. IF there had been, in effect, two separate structures side-by-side the pool deck could have collapsed without bringing down the towers.

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  @edmundwest5636 · 4 years ago

  The criminal case may be too unsettling to too many entrenched interests. My guess is it will be investigated slowly till the case dies from old age.<br>Thanks for your &nbsp;organized coherent analysis - consistently informative for non engineers. I wait eagerly for each new release.

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  @BobSentell · 4 years ago

  You have a very good memory. Not many people would be willing to put the real picture up after spending five minutes trying to describe it by memory. But it did confirm you had seen it and you know what you are talking about as there is no way I could have described it in that level of detail. But I&apos;m also not a civil engineer.

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