[BigBobber]

Tarrasco Steel was hired as a subcontractor for rebar installation services to major bridge projects in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee..

Glad they caught these guys, but...

You don't need a welding certificate to install rebar. There is usually no welding involved. Also very easy to tell if the work was done properly.

Finally, want to bet the states involved promoted this firm to get minority procurement credits?

Reaping what we sow.

[mad_as_he$$]

There are certain locales where you do need a welding cert to install re-bar. In Kalifornia, on bridge work, it gets all messed up but I had one contract where we did have to have certs on the welders - never could find out who actually required it, but it cost the taxpayers extra.

[longtermmemmory]

There are all those old stories about construction projects where ribar is moved after an inspection in order to save costs.

[mamelukesabre]

I was thinking the same thing. The only welding I can think of is steel studs to a plate and that’s done with a stud gun. It’s pretty hard to screw up that, and there’s no credentials required. Rebar is overlapped and tied. Sometimes an exposed plate in a piece of precast has something welded to it, but that’s not for structural purposes usually. Sometimes a cross brace between two girders, but once the deck is poured, how much are those contributing? Girders are generally bolted if built up steel sections. If precast concrete, then they secured by a poured in place bulkhead.

I think the only welding the mexicans are doing is on some false work. That’s all tore down before any traffic crosses.