Local officials did not enforce this requirement for the Champlain Towers South condo building. In Miami-Dade County, the 40-year-old building recertification provision requires structural or electrical problems identified in the process to be repaired within 150 days from when the process commences. No Florida state law requires association boards to repair structural problems when they are discovered. The statute, however, was repealed two years later when some associations complained about the high costs of the inspections. In 2008, the state of Florida briefly required regular structural integrity inspections of condo buildings over three stories. Only two Florida counties, including Miami-Dade County where the complex is located, have these recertification requirements. The board of the Champlain Towers South condo association commissioned the report to comply with a “40-year-old building” recertification requirement. The report also explained why extensive repairs were necessary. How this failure happened is still not clear, but it is coming into sharper focus every day.Ī 2018 engineering report on the structural integrity of the Champlain Towers South complex in Surfside, Florida warned of major structural damage and “abundant” cracking and crumbling of support-bearing columns. The families of those who occupied the Champlain Towers South condo building the night of June 24 are feeling the consequences of a collective failure to manage risk with an acuteness that few of us ever experience.
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