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This should be no surprise.
A consultant engineer warned three years before the deadly collapse of a South Florida condominium building that there was evidence of “major structural damage” to the concrete slab below the pool deck and abundant cracking and crumbling in the underground parking garage, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/26/miami-condo-collapse-warning-death-toll
Buildings just don't collapse out of the blue. The warning signs were obvious. Also in the past they use to mix concrete on site often using aggregate from the site. Another reason to avoid old high rise buildings in coastal areas. When we were condo hunting in 2011 around North Miami beach and downtown Miami, we avoided any building built before 2000. The trend over the past 10 years in Miami beach has been to tear down the old and build taller and new.
Plus all these older condos I would think are not up to current hurricane building codes in Florida.