On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 10:59:30 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 3/16/2018 10:40 AM, dpb wrote:
On 3/16/2018 9:05 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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It was also stated it was not complete yet.Â* So what?Â* It should have
been properly secured and supported along the way.Â* Poor engineering.

Not necessarily the engineering if it was, indeed, construction; the
design may have been perfectly adequate.Â* Where, precisely, the blame
belongs is at this point indeterminate and jumping to any conclusions
premature.

Engineering is not just the design of the finished unit, it also
includes proper procedure for construction and installation. Unless a
couple of pages of the assembly instructions were missing, it is still a
design flaw.

That's not true. A design flaw is something that was wrong in the
design, the drawings, the specifications that showed how it was to be
built. I could provide perfectly a perfectly sound desing for anything,
give it to the customer and they could then hire a contractor that
screws it all up. Or that deliberately skipped steps to save money.
Usually in a project like this the company that designed it would also
be involved in monitoring the construction, but until there is an
investigation, there is no way to place the blame.



USA Today article states experts say it was vulnerable to collapse until
completed. While that may be true, it does not sound very smart over a
highway.



I've even heard both reported that it had been opened for pedestrian
traffic which would imply completion and that it was still
incomplete--so which was it?Â* Clearly the newsfolk don't have all their
"facts" straight yet (as if they ever do) before rush to pontificate.

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Not complete. Scheduled to be complete in 2019. It was just erected in
6 hours last Saturday.

That doesn't sound right either. It was a concrete structure that they
first built on the side, then later moved over the highway. You don't
do that in 6 hours.




The concepts of fabricating off site is a good one that has worked for
many projects but evidently, it was poorly executed here.

From what I saw it was being fabricated at the site, just not in it's
final position.