. >> reporter: this is the first time engineer greg batista has looked at this video in slow motion.e as a structural engineer in south florida to tell us what he thinks went wrong. >> go to that first frame where it begins to fall. there was something here at the bottom that gave way, and this is why this entire piece is just starting to come down. as i progress the frames, you'll see that there is a second that remains behind it or just to the north of it. now, obviously when you have this kind of -- this kind of collapse, obviously it's going to try to bring down everything that is around it. basically on this side, on this side and of course the back side. now, the back side as we see here starts to come down almost immediately with the front side. i was able to get my hands on the original plans, and the original plans, as this goes down, shows that there was a shear wall. that wall when we looked at the original plans was right there in that section. so that's why it didn't fall immediately. if that shear wall was not there, then this portion that's here would have pancaked als

let's discuss with structural engineer greg batista. he worked in the building in 2017.e was on site after the collapse early thursday morning. so let's start with the miami herald reporting, a pool contractor photographed what appears to be major damage in the garage. this photo was taken two days before the building collapsed. the contractor said there was standing water all over the parking garage, cracks in the concrete, erosion under the pool. is this consistent with what you saw when you worked in the building? >> no. when i worked at the building it was just relegated to some waterproofing in the planters and had very little to do if nothing to do with the actual structure itself. but i have inspected these types of buildings up and down the coast. and typically you see these kind of especially on a building this old, you see these kind of damages, i mean, as far as the spalding where the reinforcing steel expands and breaks out the concrete. it's part and parcel of it. but this building from what i saw in the report including the pictures that are inside of this

his name is greg batista and he joins me now.or doing this on short notice. >> good evening. >> what we're hearing, i heard creaking, there was spalling and there were repairs needed for rust and corrosion, some roofing. is there anything that you've heard that raises concern? >> well, let me be clear about something. the concrete repair and the spalling problem does cause eventual collapses. i've been on buildings -- i've been doing this for 30 years and i've done hundreds of 40-year certifications. i've been on hundreds or even thousands of inspections. and spalling can get to a point that if not repaired, it can lead to eventual collapse and i've been to places where tlef been collapses of floors, of beams, of columns. obviously something not nearly as much as what we see here, but yes, it could be either the main factor or one of the factors, such as there may have been some, as i've read in some articles that there was a study made that part of the building was -- was maybe -- was subsiding a little bit. so maybe that or a c

greg batista, i appreciate you. i'll have you back on again. >> thank you. >>> so the fate of this is infrastructure in the country is uncertain. i know you guys have jumped on me about this and i kind of understand it. i'm not saying if biden doesn't pass this bill the building is falling down next time. nobody is saying anything that stupid. all i'm saying is infrastructure matters, that's all, okay? it matters, because a lot of things are in the state of disrepair that this building was. i've watched bridges fall in this country and dealt with the aftermath of it. i've been there. i was there for i-35 in minneapolis, in minnesota and watched that happen and saw the lives taken. it's real. it happens. infrastructure matters. and not just because of this building, but this building is an example of what can happen. biden is pushing his deal in wisconsin today. so does this add urgency, or is the really big problem not the reality of what we all know but the politics of getting it done? let's bring in a progressive

. >> greg batista is an engineer and says that it is possible that spalling contributed to the collapse. >> the concrete repair and spalling problem does cause eventual collapses. i mean, i've been on buildings, i've been doing this for 30 years and i've done hundreds of 40 year certifications, been on thousands of inspections. and spalling can get to a point that if not repaired, it can lead to eventual collapse. and i've been to places where they have been collapses of floor, beams, columns. obviously not nearly as much as we see here, but, yes, it could be either the main factor or one of the factors such as there may have been some as i've read in some articles that there was a study made that part of the building was maybe subsiding a little bit. so maybe that or a confluence of those different issues can easily cause this kind of collapse. >> and stay with cnn, we'lldate. >>> a major bipartisan infrastructure agreement is one step closer to reality. listen to president joe biden. >> we had a really good meeting, and to answer the direct question, he wiwe have a deal. >> it would c

joining us now greg batista, a structural engineering who has worked on collapsed structures in the pasttually inside the very building, the champlain towers, that collapsed. greg, i want to share with you part of the 2018 field survey that i mentioned just a moment ago, and says in part, quote, abundant cracking of various trees was observed in the concrete columns, beams and walls. though some of this damage is minor, most of the concrete deterioration needs to be repaired in a timely fashion. i want to explain this. it's concrete skrakd or crumbled. from your perspective, greg, when you hear that, when you reading is like that in a report, do you sense urgency? is that something that can go unaddressed for three years? >> well, first of all, obviously, if an engineer says something is urgent, then you have to take his word for it. i have done probably thousands and hundreds of 40-year recertifications down the coast, including from dade county up until, you know, up through broward county. i have been in many of the buildings that have the same structural composition and occupancy as

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joining us now, greg bah batista an engineer. thank you for joining us this morning.s used to fill in the cracking, whether it be underneath the pool deck or underneath the condo itself where they had noticed significant damage? >> i can only tell you what i've seen from the reports from the engineers that did the report. you can tell that there was some cracks, some -- you know, quite a bit of cracks that were occurring there. you can tell they did an epoxy injection, which is taking a super glue that hardens harder than what the concrete is and injected into the cracks. other than that there weren't signs of repairs that i was able to figure out from the report. but from the report as you said there needed to be significant repairs to this project. >> and what, when you inject this sort of super glue, the epoxy into these cracks, is that a proven, safe, permanent fix? >> in many instances, it is. but what happens here sometimes and i've seen it up and down the coast on the hundreds of buildings that i've inspected, that sometimes, you know, it's easy to confuse a cr

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