Miami’s barrier islands are home to many tall luxury buildings, and, according to a study recently published in the Earth and Space Science, about three dozen are sinking.
Thirty-five luxury condos and hotels across Sunny Isles Beach, Surfside, Miami Beach and Bal Harbour have faced subsidence in the past handful of years, the study found.
It was authored by researchers from the University of Miami, Florida Atlantic University, University of Houston, University of Hanover in Germany, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and California Institute of Technology.
It involved reviewing Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar data.
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The sinking of the high-rises amounted to 2-8 centimeters over a multi-year span running 2016 through 2023, according to the researchers.
High-rises expect to see “up to several tens of centimeters” of settlement “during and immediately after construction,” the University of Miami Rosenstiel School said in a Friday post on its website.
Builders constructed …