<div dir="auto">You have to wonder whether the HOA was dragging its feet on expensive repairs. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 5:57 PM Dragga, Sam <<a href="mailto:Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu">Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A 2018 nine-page engineering report identifies issues that might have caused or contributed to the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The report raises important issues for technical communicators about information design. The report has no headings but alphabetizes issues A through K. The key issues related to the integrity of the building’s
 foundation are addressed on pages 6-9.  <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As I read this report, I think that a more emphatic display and organization of information could have stirred immediate action on critical repairs and saved lives. This report will likely be a salient and
 tragic example for classroom discussion of ineffective communication.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The report is available at <a href="https://www.townofsurfsidefl.gov/docs/default-source/default-document-library/town-clerk-documents/champlain-towers-south-public-records/8777-collins-ave---structural-field-survey-report.pdf" target="_blank">
https://www.townofsurfsidefl.gov/docs/default-source/default-document-library/town-clerk-documents/champlain-towers-south-public-records/8777-collins-ave---structural-field-survey-report.pdf</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sam<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam Dragga<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:sam.dragga@ttu.edu" target="_blank">sam.dragga@ttu.edu</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Steve Bernhardt<br>Bayside DE</div>