see url: https://cryptome.substack.com/p/shopping-disaster
Inside the Tumultuous Years Before the Florida Condo Collapse
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/us/miami-florida-surfside-collapse.html
Boards may shop for easy-going professional consultants who provide
acceptable evaluations, gambling on risk-taking will save on costs.
This is a too common practice of commercial property owners and
developers who also hire obliging pros to kick the can down the road,
aided by building officials who duck strong enforcement under pressure
from elected bosses.
It takes a major disaster to change this long-standing mutually
backscratching behavior, and not to be overlooked: the role of financial
and insurance industries complicity.
Architects and engineers learn quickly how to shade their inspections
and recommendations to fit the standards in force in the jurisdiction
where they practice. Accounts of the Surfside pre-collapse and
afterwards perfectly fit the going CYA whereever awful stuff happens, so
expect to see and hear what is always presented. Keep fingers crossed a
bit of improvement will occur but nothing much will change.
Will there be a Ralph Nader to initiate a deep analysis of what could
have been prevented and follow-up with a sustained campaign to fire up
officials to meet their lawful obligations to protect the unwary public?
Maybe, but don't expect licensed design professionals to do what
licensing law stipulates about their duty to provide public safety,
health and welfare in buildings, to do that is what those prudent pros
warn is "professional suicide."
BTDT for 50 years in the fountainhead of malfeasance, NYC. Yep, John
Galt had it right.
