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Diversity Fail? All-Women Engineering Team Blamed for Collapse of Miami Pedestrian Bridge
SandraRose.com ^ | March 18, 2018 | Sandra Rose

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sandrarose.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bridgecollapse; designflaw; diversity; fiu; fiubridge; miami; quotas; women
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To: reaganaut1

A Bridge Too Fair


41 posted on 03/18/2018 6:43:07 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
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To: reaganaut1

I still maintain that this incident occurred because the center support abutment was removed and before the tower and suspension cables were installed. This single-tower suspension bridge design is sound and is in place in many locations around the world.

I have heard that many engineers would have built the tower first or claim that the “normal” build sequence is to build the central tower first. I do not know if that is the case or if that is an absolute requirement, but it’s not at all unreasonable. *IF* it is a requirement then I can scarcely see how placing the unsupported span into position, however “novel” and whoop-de-doo it may have been, was not idiotic folly.

What I am saying is, that the tower and the supporting cables or rods simply were not there at the moment the center support was removed. If that’s the case, the decision to remove supports was a blitheringly stupid management decision.


42 posted on 03/18/2018 6:45:19 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: dsrtsage; Beave Meister
Who needs to calculate loads and harmonics and other stupid mathy things?

That's because gravity is sexist:

when a man is affected by gravity, he swings low ("how's it hanging?") which is unfairly alluring to women; but when a woman is affected by gravity, she sags which is NOT attractive to men, so it's just Patriarchical and Unfair.

And if you intensify gravity enough, it turns into a Black Hole, which is hate speech. Because P*ssy Hats are pink. Or something.

43 posted on 03/18/2018 6:45:22 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: reaganaut1

Whoever this dumbass Sara Rose is knows nothing about construction. You know, kinda like the resident dumbasses on this forum.

MCM is a construction management firm, they hired FIGG Bridge Design to perform the design work. Joint ventures are complex contractural business relationships which is way beyond the “experts” commenting here.

I would be a little surprised if MCM had any PEs - with the possible exception of Value Engineering. Unlikely any MCM employee sealed any drawing or acted as engineer of record.

To make pronouncements about loads, any responsible and qualified person would have to look at the drawings. Everybody here who has both examined and understands the structural drawings, raise your hand. I thought so.

Now back to your regularly scheduled stupidity.


44 posted on 03/18/2018 6:45:56 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: reaganaut1

No way!


45 posted on 03/18/2018 6:46:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: HangnJudge
"Was a 6’ tall, blond, bombshell Architect"

"Was?" What happened? Did she stand outside in the rain and shrink all of a sudden?

46 posted on 03/18/2018 6:47:05 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: reaganaut1

Ah, affirmative action - it’ll get you every time.....


47 posted on 03/18/2018 6:47:41 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: reaganaut1

Is it because they get paid 78% less or whatever the feminazis say?


48 posted on 03/18/2018 6:48:24 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: reaganaut1

Ban diversity!
We must do something!
Series!
Liberal stupid is killing people!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


49 posted on 03/18/2018 6:48:38 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: dowcaet
Can’t wait to see the media spin on this disaster!

They won't have to spin it.

Because they will never report it.

50 posted on 03/18/2018 6:48:59 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: bunkerhill7
A Bridge Too Fair

You Winz Teh Thread!

51 posted on 03/18/2018 6:49:00 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: reaganaut1

They all ought to be fired. IF any had a PE it should be pulled

Just straight out shoddy work


52 posted on 03/18/2018 6:49:05 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Beave Meister

OMG, I just wanna see Trump’s tax returns and catch the bouquet in Amanda’s amazing wedding!?


53 posted on 03/18/2018 6:50:06 PM PDT by Eddie01 (I'll learned it on Free Republic same as you)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“encourages all voices”

Doubt that.


54 posted on 03/18/2018 6:50:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ
Ah, affirmative action - it’ll get you every time.....

Pretty close: the female engineers were experts at, err, umm, "Deconstructing" Patriarchical Paradigms like loads and force vectors (which are pretty phallic, when you think about it, they're always pointing somewhere).

55 posted on 03/18/2018 6:51:03 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: bunkerhill7

Brilliant!


56 posted on 03/18/2018 6:51:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: FirstFlaBn
So what you're saying is, a *ussy pass may be denied?
57 posted on 03/18/2018 6:52:04 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: Beave Meister

People sandwich?


58 posted on 03/18/2018 6:53:38 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: reaganaut1

Math is hard. All those put-togethers, take-aways, timeses, and goes-in-tos.


59 posted on 03/18/2018 6:54:21 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: reaganaut1

“Math is hard...”


60 posted on 03/18/2018 6:54:43 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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