NIST to Send Scientists and Engineers to Surfside, FL Collapse Site
The National Institute or Standards and Technology, headquartered in Gaithersburg, is sending a team of six scientists and engineers to the site of Thursday’s partial building collapse at Champlain Towers South “to collect firsthand information,” to determine if an investigation will be conducted, according to Local 10 News in Florida.
NIST has conducted four previous investigations using the NCST Act authorities:
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World Trade Center (published 2005)
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Station Nightclub Fire (published 2005)
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Joplin Tornado (published 2014)
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Hurricane Maria (ongoing, but interim report published recently)Source: CNN
Local 10’s Christina Boomer tweeted the following on Monday:
BREAKING: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tells me it is sending a team of six scientists and engineers to #SurfsideBuildingCollapse "to collect firsthand information…that will be used to determine if an investigation or study will be conducted." pic.twitter.com/1Vhb75IsBG
— Christina Boomer Vazquez (@CBoomerVazquez) June 28, 2021
The NIST launches teams of experts to assess building + infrastructure procedures in the wake of what it calls “disaster and failure events” that result in a “substantial loss of life”. These events can include national disasters, construction/design failures, terrorist attacks.
— Christina Boomer Vazquez (@CBoomerVazquez) June 28, 2021
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