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  1. WannabePESE

    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse

    The interior columns have over 500,000 pounds of dead load in them. Assuming a conservative safety factor of 1.2, while it wouldn't meet code, the columns should be able to support an additional 100,000 lbs of load before failure. I don't feel that an RTU would cause a collapse of this...
  2. WannabePESE

    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse

    General Structural Note #3 on S11 spec's precast piles to 100 kips. FYI the North Building is included in the PDF, and there are differences between the two.
  3. WannabePESE

    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse

    In my opinion, the collapse looks like it initiated somewhere between grids H-N. The area with the transfer beams was part of the secondary collapse.

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