The move provides the team members with the space needed to safely access the evidence.

View as a Web Page May 31, 2023, Champlain Towers South Investigation Update: Second Warehouse Will Allow New Phase of Testing On May 11, 2023, the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) and the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) finished moving a portion of evidence retrieved from the Champlain Towers South building into a second warehouse. The move provides the team members with the space needed to safely access the specimens and begin the next phase of evidence analysis, which will include extracting samples of concrete and reinforcing steel from the specimens retrieved from the Surfside, Florida, collapse site. The challenging move of more than 300 building specimens was managed by MDPD contractors and subcontractors and overseen by NIST staff. "The first warehouse was not large enough to allow our staff members and others to safely conduct all of the analysis that needs to be done to help us understand the condition of the building materials at the time of the collapse," said Judith Mitrani-Reiser, co-lead of the investigation. "This second, larger warehouse will allow us to create sufficient space around each specimen so that we can bring in equipment to safely manipulate, cut and core specimens to extract 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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