Investigators from around the world have flown in to try to explain the sudden, middle-of-the-night collapse of a nice enough, but largely unremarkable luxury condo building, one that stood for several decades before collapsing but wasn’t nearly as old as some nearby buildings that still stand. It’s nearly unprecedented mystery that experts are struggling to explain.
“It’s really rare to have this kind of failure that a building is doing all well and all of the sudden it just collapses,” said Mohammad Ehsani, engineer and concrete-shoring expert. “It’s not something that should happen or does happen.”
It seems hyperbolic to say “40-year-old buildings don’t just collapse” but it’s not.
