Posted on 03/18/2018 6:12:54 PM PDT by reaganaut1
The all-women engineering team that designed the ill-fated pedestrian foot bridge at Miami’s Florida International University were highly touted for their advances in a field that is typically dominated by men.
But critics are pointing the finger of blame at the female engineers for design flaws that may have brought the bridge down.
Investigators are still on the scene of last week’s bridge collapse that killed 6 people and injured 9 on the FIU campus in Southwest Miami.
The investigation is focusing on the work done by a team of all-women engineers who were employed by one of the construction firms that designed and built the bridge.
Munilla Construction Management (MCM), the South Miami-based firm that designed the FIU foot bridge, has been sued multiple times for unsafe practices in the past.
In early March MCM was sued by a construction worker who was severely injured when MCM’s “makeshift bridge” at Miami’s International Airport collapsed.
MCM is a Cuban-American, family-owned Miami company founded in 1983 that employs more than 1,000 people in several states. The company is a federal military contractor for the U.S. Army and Navy.
MCM was awarded the $14.2 million minority contract to design and build the cable-stayed bridge. The company is well-connected in Miami politics and it promotes inclusion and diversity in the workforce.
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Who needs to calculate loads and harmonics and other stupid mathy things?
Rut Roh
Apparently nothing is more important than diversity!
It’s not their fault, they were unduly influenced by their husbands, fathers and sons.
Democrats have done enough damage in FL. Will people ever learn?
Diversity Kills!
Can’t wait to see the media spin on this disaster!
“MCM was awarded the $14.2 million minority contract to design and build the cable-stayed bridge. “
Well the “minority contract” designer and builder company made the “big time” in the killing fields of the construction business!
See, see! Them bump stocks again!
Would you rather have a group of Republican women engineers build your bridge or a group of Democrat women engineers?
They already tried “It’s Trumps fault because he rolled back regulations”
Never underestimate their ability to spin the unspinnable
There is some seriously bad logic going on here to imply that gender played any role in this, when you consider that nearly all of the failures of bridges, buildings, dirigibles, airliners, etc down through history were likely designed by all male engineering teams.
Wasserman was touting Gov program that funded the bridge.
Naturally.......
Hey, quit snarking women engineers
I went to Ga Tech and one of the brightest students I knew
Was a 6’ tall, blond, bombshell Architect
Played Trombone too, very well
This whole thing stinks... $14 million for a simple pedestrian walkway that was over engineered by a minority contractor that got the contract for political connections, ethnicity, and race, rather than competence. Then, or rather, now, people want to blame it on their attempt at diversity? Since when is an all-women team the high point of diversity?
Hey, quit snarking women engineers
I went to Ga Tech and one of the brightest students I knew
Was a 6’ tall, blond, bombshell Architect
Played Trombone too, very well
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