USA Today: “When workers from Concrete Protection and Restoration and Morabito Consultants arrived to investigate and remediate work at Champlain Towers South, they found such extensive concrete deterioration and corrosion of reinforcement that some of the repair work couldn’t be performed for fear it might affect the stability of nearby areas. In a summary of work performed produced by Morabito Consultants on October 13, 2020, the company reported it had discovered several issues, including potentially deep deterioration of concrete near the pool area.”
“Full restoration and repair work ‘could not be performed’ because the pool ‘was to remain in service for the duration of the work’ and because the necessary aggressive excavation of concrete at the pool ‘could affect the stability of the remaining adjacent concrete constructions.’ Experts caution that it’s unlikely the findings in the report reveal the root cause of the building collapse, which remains unknown. However, documents obtained exclusively by USA TODAY reveal new clues about the building’s dramatic state of disrepair,which may have been one of the causes of the collapse that killed 18 people and left 150 still missing as of Thursday afternoon.”