Today marks the two-year anniversary of the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South Condominium in Surfside, Fla. The tragedy took 98 lives. CAI honors those who lost their lives, the loved ones of the victims, and the survivors who lost their home and neighbors.
CAI members and staff remain committed to condominium safety and to pursuing best practices, education, and public policy that lead to structurally sound and fiscally responsible communities. CAI wants to make sure this heartbreaking tragedy never happens again.
We remember the Champlain Towers South victims and honor their memory.
Ingrid Ainsworth, 66 years old
Tzvi Ainsworth, 68 years old
Michael David Altman, 50 years old
Richard Augustine, 77 years old
Marina Restrepo Azen, 76 years old
Valeria Barth, 14 years old
Margarita Vasquez Bello, 68 years old
Deborah Berezdivin, 21 years old
Luis Bermudez, 26 years old
Elena Blasser, 64 years old
Claudio Bonnefoy, 85 years old
Maria Obias-Bonnefoy, 69 years old
Moises Rodan Brief, 28 years old
Maria Gabriela Camou, 64 years old
Andrea Cattarossi, 56 years old
Gino Cattarossi, 89 years old
Graciela Cattarossi, 48 years old
Graciela Cattarossi, 86 years old
Elena Chavez, 87 years old
Brad Cohen, 51 years old
Gary Cohen, 58 years old
Magaly Elena Delgado, 80 years old
Nicole Dawn Doran, 43 years old
Christina Beatriz Elvira, 74 years old
Bonnie Epstein, 56 years old
David Epstein, 58 years old
Stacie Dawn Fang, 54 years old
Francis Fernandez, 67 years old
Andreas Giannitsopoulos, 21 years old
Edgar Gonzalez, 42 years old
Anastasiya Gromova, 24 years old
Emma Guara, 4 years old
Lucia Guara, 11 years old
Marcus Joseph Guara, 52 years old
Beatriz Rodriguez Guerra, 52 years old
Oresme Gil Guerra, 60 years old
Estelle Hedaya, 54 years old
Miguel Leonardo Kaufman, 65 years old
Frank Kleiman, 55 years old
Jay Kleiman, 52 years old
Manuel LaFont, 54 years old
Nicole Langesfeld, 26 years old
Alfredo Leone, 48 years old
Lorenzo De Oliveira Leone, 5 years old
Nancy Kress Levin, 76 years old
Andres Levine, 26 years old
Antonio Lozano, 83 years old
Gladys Lozano, 79 years old
Gloria Machado, 71 years old
Ruslan Manashirov, 36 years old
Linda March, 58 years old
Ana Mora, 70 years old
Juan Alberto Mora, 80 years old
Juan Alberto Mora Jr, 32 years old
Ilan Naibryf, 21 years old
Hilda Noriega, 92 years old
Arnold Notkin, 87 years old
Maria Notkin, 81 years old
Fabian Nunez, 57 years old
Leon Oliwkowicz, 80 years old
Ana Ortiz, 46 years old
Aishani Gia Patel, 1 year old
Bhavna Patel, 36 years old
Vishai Patel, 42 years old
Michelle Anna Pazos, 23 years old
Miguel Pazos, 55 years old
Alexia Maria Pettengill Lopez Moreira, 9 years old
Anna Sophia Pettengill Lopez Moreira, 6 years old
Luis Pettengill, 36 years old
Luis Vicente Pettengill Lopez Moreira III, 3 years old
Sophia Lopez Moreira, 36 years old
Maria Popa, 79 years old
Mihai Radulescu, 82 years old
Catalina Gomez Ramirez, 45 years old
Anaely Rodriguez, 42 years old
Harold Rosenberg, 52 years old
Lisa Rosenberg, 27 years old
Maria Teresa Rovirosa, 58 years old
Richard Rovirosa, 60 years old
Elaine Lia Sabino, 71 years old
Luis Sadovnic, 28 years old
Rosa Saez, 70 years old
Simon Segal, 80 years old
Judith Spiegel, 65 years old
Cassie Billedeau Stratton, 40 years old
Luis F. Barth Tobar, 51 years old
Gonzalo Torre, 81 years old
Maria Torre, 76 years old
Mercedes Fuentes Urgelles, 61 years old
Raymond Urgelles, 61 years old
Angela Velasquez, 60 years old
Julio Cesar Velasquez, 66 years old
Theresa Velasquez, 36 years old
Leidy Vanessa Luna Villalba, 23 years old
Benny Weisz, 31 years old
5-year-old victim, name not available at the family’s request
7-year-old victim, name not available at the family’s request
44-year-old victim, name not available at the family’s request
SOURCE: MIAMI-DADE COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Since the tragedy, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, and Tennessee have passed legislation regarding reserve studies and funding in community associations. Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia have introduced legislation regarding reserve studies and funding.
Florida also has passed—and updated—legislation on building inspections. Virginia passed a resolution requiring the Department of Professional and Occupation Regulation (DPOR) to study the adequacy of current laws addressing standards for structural integrity and maintaining reserves to repair, replace, or restore capital components in common interest communities.
Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and South Carolina have introduced legislation addressing building maintenance and structural integrity.
New Castle County (Del.) Council passed a resolution that established a task force to review and consider issues relating to condominiums and other common interest community buildings and structures.
Many public policy recommendations in each of these instances derived from CAI’s Condominium Safety Public Policy Report.
Today, we remember the Champlain Towers South victims and their families and honor the memory of those who lost their lives. CAI remains committed to condominium safety. CAI has information and resources covering aging infrastructure, reserve studies and funding, building inspections, maintenance, community association living responsibilities, CAI policy positions, and more.
>>Visit www.condosafety.com, and help CAI advocate for change by sharing our materials and by joining our public policy efforts.
