A concrete slab that supported the pool deck at Florida's Champlain Towers South condo building, which collapsed last month and resulted in the deaths of at least 95 people so far, needed "concrete ...

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The pool deck at Champlain Towers South Condo, now at the center of a forensic investigation into the building’s deadly collapse, had been a problem for decades, a newly released 1996 construction ...

The ground-floor pool deck of the oceanfront condominium building that collapsed near Miami was resting on a concrete slab that had “major structural damage” and needed to be extensively repaired, ...

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SURFSIDE, Fla. -- Nearly three years before Thursday's deadly partial collapse of a South Florida residential building, an engineer raised concerns about structural damage to the concrete slab below ...