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Recent content by smaarch
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Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse, Part 02
I'm an Architect involved in the design of a number of fairly complex buildings. I'm of the opinion This building collapsed for at least three reasons Beyond this: I've worked with some seriously great PE's and some seriously terrible PE's What I find truly amazing in this thread are the posts...- smaarch
- Post #130
- Forum: Engineering Failures & Disasters
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Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse, Part 02
Architect here - Thank you all for your knowledge. The drawings show parking level at approximately elevation +2' The high tide on the night of the collapse was at elevation +3.1" at 9:04 pm. Higher than usual (note: times do not exactly concur) Is it possible the hydro static pressure lifted...- smaarch
- Post #34
- Forum: Engineering Failures & Disasters
