Comment on Federal report on Surfside collapse won’t be released until 2026. What’s taking so long?

Delays in the federal probe into what caused the deadly Champlain Towers South condo collapse in 2021 mean a draft report on the findings is now expected in 2026, a year later than previously estimated. In a Sept. 12 update, an investigative team with the National Institute of Standards and Technology said a variety of challenges related to testing, obtaining documents and interviewing witnesses have slowed down the process. “Unfortunately, we have faced technical and programmatic delays that have caused us to adjust our timeline,” said lead investigator Judith Mitrani-Reiser. Read more at Miami Herald.