WASHINGTON: The country pioneered the concept of high-rise building (also called a skyscraper when New York City surpassed the first multi-story structure in the midwest) was having a moment of calculations after the fall of condo in Miami which aroused very often disasters in Mumbai.
Americans heard and witnessed horror stories of corruption, and violated the code to build stories more similar to those in developing countries than in a country that boasted law enforcing themselves.
Disquet extends beyond the collapse of the coastal edge of 12 multilevel: six days after the disaster just a dozen the body has recovered from 159 countless victims believed to have debris.
The list that developed from the red flag is now revealed with the Champlain Towers South Building is a worrying resident of far beyond the north and east towers – which is built later – which remains standing.
Some are left apartments on questions about the structural integrity of the building amid fears that the flow of salt water in the nature of the sea is damaging the foundation.
According to local reports, the South Tower, was promoted and built in 1981 by a Canadian developer and two other American principals, all of whom have died, involves short cuts and rewards to navigate through the permit system.
The 12-storey 12-unit tower was on the verge of undergoing a $ 15 million renovation to pass the 40-year re-certification needed by Miami Dade County, when it collapsed last Thursday.
Now transpiration that engineers have warned management in early 2018 about problems with the structure.
Although the concept of high-rise structures returned to the millennium history, Americans pioneered the idea of ​​a multi-bound office and residential unit.
The explosion of skyscrapers in America was said to have begun in Chicago in 1885 with the William Le Baron Jenney House Insurance Building, which rose to 10 floors (and 12th, after an additional 1890) before being followed by New York City, which in 1930 built the building The Empire of the 102-multilevel imperial in just one year, and who remained the tallest building in the world until 1970 when the World Trade Center was built.
It has been very few of the structural collapses in the US, mainly due to strict code enforcement.