It has been a busy summer for South Florida engineers. Photo: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In July, Misha Mladenović, the president of m2e, a consulting engineering firm based in South Florida, had to cancel his family vacation to Europe. He didn’t do it out of COVID-19 concerns — he was simply, suddenly, deluged with work. He’s not the only one.
John Pistorino, a structural engineer who designed Miami-Dade County’s 40-year certification program, says before the collapse his company had ten-to-12 buildings it regularly tended to. Now, he says, “it’s doubled. Our existing clients want us to reassure them that everything is safe. And meanwhile, I’ve been getting calls from people in Tampa, the Panhandle, and even California and Hawaii.”
The building codes in Miami-Dade and Broward County are actually robust, Pistorino says — structures are designed with deep foundations and the ability to withstand strong winds and storm surges. But in order for them to stay that way, they have to be maintained. Buildings on the coast also need to be painted every five-to-seven years to prevent cracks where water can get in and start undermining the stucco.
Post-Surfside panic has grown to such a fervor that Rick Jenkins, the president of Building Inspection Services, says he has recently gotten calls from individual condo owners asking him to inspect their apartments — something he hadn’t seen before. “They’re finding cracks, and they’re worried. I try to talk them out of it. I told a woman yesterday, ‘It doesn’t do any good to inspect your unit. We have to inspect the entire building,’” he says.
Sadly Miami was built on sand/swamp and I’m terrified for the people of Miami to suffer more tragedies. That’s why any infrastructure bill NEEDS TO INCLUDE CLIMATE CHANGE or else this will keep happening.
In a land where the ground is swamp and regulations are evil what is there to worry about in your 30 story condo?
Can they come look at this? MA DOT thinks it's fine...
Get that paper engineer bros. Too long people cheaped out.
Es lógica la preocupación ‼️yo no alquilarla en Miami
Overbooking engineers seems like a good thing
You mean they’re starting to maintain their properties, making them safe to occupy? Does Ron DeSantis allow that kind of activity?
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