The center tower was left out because it was deemed to be a nonessential and phallic reminder of patriarchal suppression. /s
Wait a friggin' minute. I thought the bridge was designed by FIGG, who has experience in a number of large projects. Are they saying this was a student project?
Tell me it ain't so!
“The all-women engineering team...”
And this story drops off the MSM radar in 4, 3, 2, 1...
A Bridge Too Fair
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.
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.
No way!
Ah, affirmative action - it’ll get you every time.....
Is it because they get paid 78% less or whatever the feminazis say?
Ban diversity!
We must do something!
Series!
Liberal stupid is killing people!
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They all ought to be fired. IF any had a PE it should be pulled
Just straight out shoddy work
Math is hard. All those put-togethers, take-aways, timeses, and goes-in-tos.
“Math is hard...”
>>...critics say simple mathematics would have prevented the disaster in Miami.<<
“Math is hard if your’re a female, and even harder if you’re a minority female. So let’s not worry about that math thingy and just design a pretty bridge!” — All female, Cubana design team.
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I once dated a cute girl who was a math major. She was pretty smart. She was also later president of her sorority at Mississippi State.
Still it is a fact that boys on average, score higher on math tests and girls score higher on verbal.
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You’ve got to be kidding me? Is this real?
Well the bridge was being intolerant of gravity for a while then caved to the worlds pressure to turn that potential energy into steady state. Can’t have some object refusing to bow to the pressure of Mother Earth.