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   The architect of the Florida condo building that collapsed last   
   month — killing at least 97 people — was suspended for “gross   
   incompetency” years earlier over other structural failures,   
   according to a report.   
      
   William Friedman, who designed Champlain Towers South before it was   
   built in 1981, was suspended for six months in 1967 after pylons on   
   a sign atop another building collapsed after a major hurricane, the   
   Real Deal reported.   
      
   The Florida Board of Architecture found that Friedman’s pylons were   
   “insufficient and grossly inadequate,” and failed to meet “accepted   
   standards,” according to the real-estate publication.   
      
   The five-member board in 1966 found Friedman, who died in 2008 at   
   88, guilty of “gross incompetency, in that he negligently,   
   improperly and carelessly” designed the pylons.   
      
   Friedman appealed the decision but ultimately lost.   
      
   The architect began serving his suspension on June 1, 1967, the Real   
   Deal said, according to documents obtained by the outlet.   
      
   The pylons held up commercial signs on top of the building and gave   
   way shortly after Hurricane Betsy blew through the region, the   
   report said.   
      
   Officials have not determined the exact cause of the collapse of the   
   12-story Champlain tower in Surfside on June 24, nor whether   
   Friedman’s architectural design played any role.   
      
   But the revelation is the latest doubt to surface about the   
   structural integrity of the building — including a 2018 engineer’s   
   report that found “major structural damage.“   
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/07/25/architect-of-collapsed-florida-condo-   
   suspended-years-ago-for-structural-failure/   
      
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