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FLAWED DESIGN, LAX OVERSIGHT LED TO ‘ASTOUNDING’ MIAMI BRIDGE COLLAPSE – THE NEW YORK TIMES
http://worldnews-today.com ^ | 10/22/19 | Patricia Mazzei

Posted on 10/22/2019 11:00:59 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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To: zeestephen
The engineering company that designed and built the bridge was 100% female.

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.

21 posted on 10/23/2019 4:56:05 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: zeestephen
The Ugogirl bridge.
22 posted on 10/23/2019 5:53:38 AM PDT by GrannyAnn
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To: NorseViking

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.


23 posted on 10/23/2019 5:57:44 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: dp0622

Romansoldier19. Noob from June 2019.

Kitty bait.


24 posted on 10/23/2019 6:04:31 AM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . .)
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To: Delta 21

“everything was peachy.”
So said the group of “AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ENGINEERS” (products of the ever decaying Floi-DUH edjewkayshunal sistim )that designed the bridge.....


25 posted on 10/23/2019 6:17:30 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: RomanSoldier19

“”” “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


26 posted on 10/23/2019 6:19:36 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Hootowl99

Was this the bridge that collapsed and was designed by an all female architectural/engineering team? Or am I thinking of a different collapse?


27 posted on 10/23/2019 6:25:11 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: semaj

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.


28 posted on 10/23/2019 6:56:45 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: HamiltonJay

Equal opportunity to kill unsuspecting Citizens. Fail.


29 posted on 10/23/2019 6:57:26 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reefucation Camp???)
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To: PapaBear3625

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.


30 posted on 10/24/2019 3:15:44 AM PDT by zeestephen
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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.

31 posted on 10/24/2019 5:08:15 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: zeestephen
The fact that the bridge was funded by a federal grant makes it even more likely that they would have talked up their female engineering staff.
32 posted on 10/24/2019 5:28:11 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Yes


33 posted on 10/24/2019 5:33:21 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: zeestephen

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/


34 posted on 10/24/2019 5:33:24 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: zeestephen
From the article, archived images that were later considered counter-productive and largely scrubbed.


35 posted on 10/24/2019 5:37:26 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: PapaBear3625

Interesting video showing analysis of the collapse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxQJj8D_FE0


36 posted on 10/24/2019 5:55:50 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: PapaBear3625
Designed by male engineers:

Etc...

37 posted on 10/24/2019 6:08:29 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: PapaBear3625

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!!

/s


38 posted on 10/24/2019 6:13:45 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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