Miami Beach apartment building evacuated due to concrete deterioration

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A Miami Beach apartment building was evacuated by the city Monday due to concrete deterioration, an attorney for the building owners said.

The building at 6881 Indian Creek Drive is at least the fourth in Florida to be evacuated or partially evacuated since the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside last month.

Two days after that collapse on June 24, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava ordered an audit of buildings in the county that are five stories or higher and at or near 40 years old. She encouraged municipalities to do the same, offering the county's support.

Levine Cava said the audit should be completed within 30 days.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/miami-beach-apartment-building-evacuated-due-to-concrete-deterioration/ar-AAM6va7

A little history of Miami Beach.

[Native]

1. Chicago was built on a swamp too.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Yet oddly it doesn't seem to have the problem with buildings falling down.

Could salt water be the difference?

[Native]

7. They lifted the whole city up in the air - between four and fourteen feet.

Buildings, streets and all. Straight up, using hydraulic jacks and jackscrews. More here: [link:https://www.enjoyillinois.com/illinois-200/raising-chicago/|

But saltwater does cause more erosion.

[Hestia]

9. "The White City," first half of the book explains how skyscrapers were built - iron pylons & bedrock

only 3-4 story buildings could be built up until that time.

(a small part of the book deals with HHH Holmes, first recorded serial murderer in US), the rest of the book is about the Columbus Expo and how that expo developed Grant Park in Chicago.

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5. Chicago on a swamp. In that cold?

[bluewater]

8. Swamps are just bad drainage

There are plenty of swamps in New England, for example.

[malaise]

2. Fascinating

Thanks

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4. Wonder how many more there will be? And what happens to the evacuated people?

All of a sudden they've got unanticipated moving and housing costs.

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6. Dominoes