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Sarasota News Leader January 25, 2013 wrangled over what to do. The city commissioners were told Tuesday that efforts would begin soon to rehabilitate the 14-story building. But the work will not be easy. Page 41 to the roof to carry their weight. Dolphin Tower was put together in a different way. On the fourth floor, a slab "transferred" the stress to adjacent columns. "The transfer slab shifts forces between columns that don't line up," exA concrete slab on the fourth floor failed, plained David Kerins of Kerins Engineering. jeopardizing the entire structure. Most highrise buildings depend on concrete columns When the slab failed, there were 10 upper stacked atop each other from the foundation stories trying to balance on an unsupported Dolphin Tower residents have been in limbo since 2010, when major structural problems were discovered with the building in Sarasota. Photo by Norman Schimmel