Tropicana Parking Garage

Highlights

• As with any collapse, our first priority was to assist in stabilizing the site to make it safe for first responders and for further investigation. 
• Challenges we faced included preserving evidence during the demolition of the partially collapsed structure, and determining the cause and origin of the collapse.
• We used advanced modeling and materials testing to determine the cause of the collapse and reviewed documents and project correspondence to assign responsibility.
• Forensic and structural engineers from three of our offices remained on site round the clock, seven days a week, for the first phase of the work. 
• We later assisted in ligation as an expert witness regarding the cause and origin of the collapse.