A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staff member and National Construction Safety Team member examine a core extracted from Champlain Towers South evidence specimens following compressive testing of the core (July 2023).
Credit: NIST
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will provide updates on its investigations into the impacts of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico and the 2021 partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South building as part of a National Construction Safety Team (NCST) Advisory Committee meeting on March 6 and 7, 2024.
On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria devastated much of Puerto Rico, damaging buildings that its communities relied on for medical care, safety, communications and more. To better understand how the buildings and infrastructure failed, and how we can prevent such failures in the future, in 2018 NIST launched a multiyear effort to study how critical buildings performed during the storm, as well as how emergency communications systems worked. NIST is conducting its research under authorities granted by the National Construction Safety Team Act and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program. Additional information and progress reports can be found on the NIST website.
Just six days after the June 24, 2021, partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Florida, NIST announced the launch of an investigation under the authorities of NCST Act. Since then, a team of engineering, geotechnical, social science, material science and other experts have been gathering and analyzing evidence to understand what caused the collapse. Updates ..
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