Posted on 10/22/2019 11:00:59 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
MIAMI — The pedestrian bridge that collapsed over a busy Miami street last year, killing six people, was doomed by a fatal design flaw, federal authorities concluded in a scathing review on Tuesday. The errors led to unusually severe cracking in the concrete that should have worried engineers and prompted the closure of the roadway below for safety.
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No, it wasn't. The CEO is a woman, but the engineer who signed off on the design, Denny Pate, was a 61 year old white male, who presumably should have had enough experience to see the risk.
Lots of good discussion on engineering forum where I got the above organizational chart.
I’ve walked across that bridge in Merida.
The Aqueduct nearby still stands, the water “ditch” in the top tier of the aqueduct remains about 80% complete. Nearby supply ditch (canal feeding the aqueduct) heads back into the countryside to the supply lake in the hills, and that canal is still there.
Romansoldier19. Noob from June 2019.
Kitty bait.
“everything was peachy.”
So said the group of “AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ENGINEERS” (products of the ever decaying Floi-DUH edjewkayshunal sistim )that designed the bridge.....
“”” “To have a failure like this is astounding,” said Bruce Landsberg, the N.T.S.B. vice chairman.
He called the nearly 19-month review by the agency “one of the most complicated reviews I think we’ve ever done,” in part because of the bridge’s unusual design. Most pedestrian bridges are simple steel structures, but the university, a public commuter school, had planned to build an emblematic bridge that would become a new landmark.
The N.T.S.B. concluded that the chief probable cause for the bridge failure was the design by Figg Bridge Engineers, an experienced Tallahassee firm whose designers, the agency said, underestimated the load on the bridge and overestimated its capacity. But agency officials said other parties contributed to two more key failures.
The Louis Berger Group had been hired by Figg to conduct an independent peer review of the bridge design. That review should have caught Figg’s critical miscalculations. Yet Louis Berger’s review was inadequate, the N.T.S.B. found.
Finally, Figg and its partners — the builder, Munilla Construction Management; the builder’s engineering consultant, Bolton Perez and Associates; the university; and the Florida Department of Transportation — failed to recognize that the cracking had reached unacceptable levels, and decided to keep the street open while workers tried to fix the problem, worsening the impact of the collapse. “””
Cascading stupidity
Was this the bridge that collapsed and was designed by an all female architectural/engineering team? Or am I thinking of a different collapse?
Bingo. There are always technical flaws to be found in such disasters; what goes unexamined in nearly 100% of cases is leadership and administration.
Perhaps the real culprit was a politically correct minority hiring program that was aggressively pushed by a left-leaning University administration, that resulted in hiring a professional firm with a history of involvement in bridge failures. No matter - they checked their minority box.
Couple this with an accelerated completion schedule pushed by the school (for what valid reason?) and a wheelbarrow full of hubris and braggadocio.
Let’s not forget the University president on the day of ribbon cutting boasted “we don’t build walls we build bridges” (paraphrase) an obvious slam to our Republican president. Same guy who probably pushed aggressive minority hiring practices.
Equal opportunity to kill unsuspecting Citizens. Fail.
I have not studied this issue at the same depth you have.
What I do know...
FIU was publicly boasting about this being an all female engineering team BEFORE the collapse.
And since the collapse, all such references seem to have gone down the "memory hole".
I believe you when you say they boasted of an "all-female engineering team", and it's likely, given university politics, that it would have been a selling point to the university's committees.
While the final sign-off was by a old-white-male engineer, I could see his being reluctant to call the female engineers' design foolish and dangerous, and being pressured to sign off on it anyway.
One of the dangers of Affirmative Action, in engineering as well as other fields, is that the AA professional's decisions and designs CANNOT be openly criticized, because doing so endangers the power structure which hired and promoted the "diversity". "Diversity and Inclusion" is a big thing in Corporate America, and any white male who says the Emperor has no clothes faces the end of his career.
Yes
Went looking more, and found an article,
http://sandrarose.com/2018/03/diversity-fail-women-engineering-team-behind-collapse-miami-pedestrian-bridge/
The article was since scrubbed, but a copy still exists in Internet Archives:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180319063147/http://sandrarose.com/2018/03/diversity-fail-women-engineering-team-behind-collapse-miami-pedestrian-bridge/
Etc...
re: “Went looking more, and found an article,
http://sandrarose.com/2018/03/diversity-fail-women-engineering-team-behind-collapse-miami-pedestrian-bridge/
But - but - men LET them fail!!
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