Members of the National Construction Safety Team have collected data to help improve computer models.

View as a Web Page Sept. 29, 2022, Update: Champlain Towers South Investigation Completes Site Testing, Announces Next Advisory Committee Meeting This summer, members of the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) completed testing at the former site of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida, collecting data to help improve computer models that will be used to evaluate potential causes of the June 2021 collapse. An update on this effort and other work related to the investigation will be presented to the NCST Advisory Committee at a public meeting on Oct. 19, 2022. Following the resolution of civil litigation related to the tragedy, in July 2022 a Miami-Dade County Circuit Court judge ordered the turnover to NIST of materials and samples collected by the civil litigants, and data and information derived from those materials and samples. Read More IN CASE YOU MISSED IT NIST's Investigations of Structural Disasters: What We Do and Why They Can Take Years to Complete March 23, 2022 NIST's director of Disaster and Failure Studies explains that for each investigation, researchers consider all possible failure hypotheses, sometimes dozens of them, and then gather data to support or disprove each hypothesis. Read More

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