Posted on 03/15/2018 11:32:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Florida International University’s massive new pedestrian bridge collapsed Thursday afternoon in West Miami-Dade.
The bridge, located at 109th Ave and 8th Street, collapsed on a number of cars.
There are reports of numerous people injured in the collapse. At least one person was taken as a trauma alert to the hospital, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
The 950-ton bridge went up on Saturday. It was then lowered into its final position, just west of 109th Avenue that day.
The main span was built next to Southwest 8th Street.
I remember that, but the Nimitz was much bigger and flattened things even more.
Engineering failure? Probably caused by cost-cutting concerns with substandard materials, rushed construction and sloppy analysis of load and bearing inputs.
No wonder they was a bridge collapse and people will be held criminally and civilly responsible for shoddy construction work. A bridge does not just collapse overnight. Certainly not a new build as in this pedestrian bridge.
They are reporting fatalities now................
The elitist know-it-all posse don’t “need no stinking I-beams”.
What does that mean, 2.5 factor?
I-beams are selfish. They used U-beams, made of balsa which identified as steel.
Someone got too much partial credit on their exams in engineering school.
Bad design or poor workmanship or both.. Somebody didn’t know how to build this thing correctly.
Source: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/03/10/fiu-pedestrian-bridge-construction/
$2.3 billion goof: New commuter trains too wide for tunnels (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3639902/posts)
Third world construction.
You made me have a coughing laughing fit........!!!!
Queering Engineering At Purdue
The American Conservative. By Rod Dreher, March 30, 2017
Purdue University has hired Donna Riley as its new head of its School of Engineering Education. Here’s an excerpt from Prof. Riley’s biography page at Smith College, where she taught for 13 years:
My scholarship currently focuses on applying liberative pedagogies in engineering education, leveraging best practices from women’s studies and ethnic studies to engage students in creating a democratic classroom that encourages all voices. In 2005 I received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support this work, which includes developing, implementing, and assessing curricular and pedagogical innovations based on liberative pedagogies and student input at Smith, and understanding how students at Smith conceptualize their identities as engineers. I seek as an engineering educator to be part of a paradigm shift that these pedagogies demand, repositioning concerns about diversity in science and engineering from superficial measures of equity as headcounts, to addressing justice and the genuine engagement of all students as core educational challenges.She will come to Purdue from Virginia Tech. This is an excerpt from her faculty page there:
Riley’s research interests include engineering and social justice; engineering ethics; social inequality in engineering education; and the liberal education of engineers. In 2005 she received a National Science Foundation CAREER award on implementing and assessing critical and feminist pedagogies in engineering classrooms. Students in Riley’s research group are pursuing interests including culturally inclusive pedagogies; understanding faculty motivations and approaches to teaching engineering ethics; connections between critical thinking and engineering ethics pedagogies; engineering education policy; and public participation in engineering projects impacting communities.
With people like Riley in charge of American engineering education, expect design failures such as this to happen again and again.
And how many $ Billions did it cost to build?
Innovative and new ideas should be kept to things not fighting gravity.
If this happened in China, some engineers would be getting shot right now.
$14.2M to build. Collapsed in 5 days.
Fixed.
Seems like someone would have to screw up big time to have a pedestrian bridge collapse.
Isn’t the city supposed to inspect it before using it? This is the stuff of nightmares!
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