Where I live buildings only need to get inspected every year, which is a complete joke. Licensed, certified, professional inspectors should inspect buildings for structural damage on a monthly basis. Furthermore, it should be a team of people inspecting the buildings, not just one fucking guy, and at least one of these people should have a motherfucking PhD in Structural Engineering. If every month, property owners were required to submit a form with the signatures of a 4-person team of licensed, verified structural engineers, one of whom has a PhD, this collapse would have never happened. The lawmakers have blood on their hands for not passing something to this effect.