Posted on 09/19/2018 8:36:34 AM PDT by Gamecock
A rural politician in eastern Saskatchewan says he’s at a loss to explain why a newly built bridge collapsed just hours after opening.
But by 4:30 p.m. the same day, part of bridge deck had collapsed into the Swan River below.
“The company did not build a bridge to fall over. We sure didn’t buy a bridge to fall over,” Hicks said. “Nobody expected this.”
He received a call from the fire department soon after saying that the bridge went down.
Hicks suspects there may have been something under the bridge that let go which caused the collapse. He said he’s not blaming anyone, because he doesn’t know what happened.
The previous bridge had been in place for more than 50 years and Hicks estimates that 50 to 60 cars pass over it each day.
The bridge is mostly used by farmers, so Hicks said the municipality wanted the bridge completed in time for harvest.
Hicks, who has been the reeve for two years, said the bridge was built to Canadian standards and the municipality has been told it won’t be on the hook for the cost of repairs.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Good lord i could have built a better bridge with an erector set ! that first set of pylons sunk and dropped the bridge who engineers this stuff ? do they have an inspection corps ? since when do you build a bridge over water without core samples ?
i just wonder if they built it on top of a pipeline of some sort unless they just had a cavern cave in ? the river wasn’t inspected enough that’s for sure
Yes, it appears to me that there was significant subsidence.
I don't even know how to mock this. It mocks itself.
Gravity?
Are you MENTAL!
Of course it wasn’t GRAVITY.
It was global warming, caused by President Trump.
GRAVITY.
Check out the science guy over here.
Some years ago I worked with some Canadian aerospace engineers who all had steel pinkie rings. I asked about the rings and the engineers told me of the bridge that failed in Canada due to design issues years before. Graduating engineers from then on bought rings made from the bridge steel to remind them to verify all engineering and design principles so it wouldn’t happen again. Something tells me that these bridge engineers forgot what the rings were representing.
Imported building material or just Chinese construction techniques for saving money on construction?
Support nearest camera looks like it is leaning toward camera, pulling it away from center part of bridge which then fell as it wasn’t supported.
The engineers in Canada have all gone Galt.
I was thinking the same thing, the left pylon supports don’t look good.
Hey Fred, did you put that truss bolt in?
Uhm yeah..................
I truss that bolt to break!!!
...I was thinking the same thing, the left pylon supports don’t look good.
Dropped same distance across the support,
something very wrong with the subsurface foundation
They don’t make ‘em like they used to.
Apparently...
Looks like pilings were not driven deep enough to support it
Per the article it was only a 4-5 week project, which would confirm my suspicion that they only replaced the pilings.
I have a bridge replacement project out to bid today to replace a wood timber bridge built in 1938. I don’t know what standards they are using in the Great White North but they don’t appear to be the same as we use in the States. If it was a complete replacement, then the concrete would still have that newish, gray/white color to it, Railings would be higher as well as new guardrail on the abutments
Canadian standards, aye?
We shouldn’t have left NAFTA..Eh
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