Two months after a portion of the Champlain Tower South condominium in Surfside, Fla., suddenly collapsed, killing 98 people, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Aug. 25announced专家团队将协助该机构对悲剧进行多管齐全的调查。

该机构称，领导调查的是NIST工程实验室材料和结构系统部副局长Judith Mitrani-Reiser，在那里她领导了法定过程的开发和协调，以使建筑物更安全。在8月25日的在线新闻发布会上，米特拉尼·雷瑟（Mitrani-Reiser）指出，迈阿密是她的“家乡”，在那里长大。

Serving as the agency’s “associate lead” for the investigation will be Glenn Bell, co-director of the safety organization Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures and co-founder of the American Society of Civil Engineers Technical Council on Forensic Engineering. He has previously investigated the 1981 the Hyatt Regency Hotel’s walkway collapse in Kansas City, Mo., and also supported NIST’s investigation of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers 1 and 2.

Mitrani-Reiser在新闻发布会上指出，其他团队已被集中在特定问题上，以“给我们的调查结构，并帮助我们识别和评估部分崩溃的所有可能原因”。五个团队将分别专注于尚普兰塔楼南楼的代码历史，证据保存，材料科学，该结构的岩土工程及其结构工程。

在指出调查团队成员因其“出色的能力”而被引入，但米特拉尼·雷瑟（Mitrani-Reiser）也称赞他们“在职业生涯中证明了他们的奉献精神，以改善我们建筑环境的安全性”。随着调查的继续，NIST可能会引入其他专家。

This investigation will be the agency’s fifth initiated under authorities granted by the 2002 National Construction Safety Team Act. NIST officials made clear that they intend for the investigation to be exhaustive, and did not give a timeline for producing its findings.

“This will not be a quick process,” Mitrani-Reiser said. NIST’s most recent investigation, into Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico, was launched in 2018 and is still ongoing.

在新闻发布会期间与记者进行交流时，米特拉尼·雷瑟（Mitrani-Reiser）指出，如果NIST调查人员发现应提出的任何问题以保护公共安全，该机构将这样做。但是，在发布有关尚普兰塔崩溃的技术原因或原因的最终报告之前，该机构将不会报告任何初步调查结果。

Mitrani-Reiser说：“如果指示，它将包括改进我们的法规，标准和实践的建议，以使这样的悲剧再也不会发生。”