Exact role of Toronto-based development consortium is unclear, but probe discovered the Champlain Towers South suffered from catastrophic flaws from the start
, while both Champlain South’s architect and engineer had previously engaged in shoddy building practices.
“Even absent any sudden overload or obvious initiator of a failure on that tragic night of the collapse, the condition that existed in the pool deck slab at that time represented a serious safety concern for the building,” Glenn Bell, the associate lead investigator, said in a presentation at NIST’s Washington-area headquarters this month.
Mr. Kilsheimer said he is still trying to determine how significant any of this was and is also looking for a proximate cause that initiated the collapse. He said he had “95 per cent” ruled out problems with the building’s foundation, an early hypothesis. “It sat there for 40 years. So what was the trigger? That’s what we’re searching for,” he said.
Champlain South’s architect, William Friedman, was accused in 1965 of failing to meet code in his design of three buildings that were damaged in a hurricane. His licence was temporarily suspended for “gross incompetence” in relation to one building. He also faced allegations of “plan stamping,” in which an architect signs off on a developer’s plans without ensuring they are sound.
“There were some things we found in the original design and construction that needed to have remediations done to bring them up to the current code. Column locations were different than in the drawings,” he said.
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