WATCH: FIU Engineer Discuss Possible Cause of Surfside Condo Collapse

Atorod Azizinamini, chair of the FIU College of Engineering and Computing’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, watching the video from the scene and discussing possible causes of the building collapse in Surfside.

Azizinamini is the author of many books and papers on structural engineering. In 1995, he was selected to be a member of a U.S. delegation to work with Japanese researchers to develop technologies for the next generation of high-rise buildings in seismic regions.

He has done research and developed a method to detect corrosion in steel embedded in concrete. He is an expert on the many factors that could have led to this failure, including construction method, foundation settlement and others.

Dr. Atorod Azizinamini

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