[BartSimpson]

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/03/15/br ... niversity/

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Florida International University’s (FIU) massive new pedestrian bridge collapsed Thursday afternoon killing several people.

The bridge, located at 109th Ave and 8th Street, collapsed on a number of cars.

Florida Highway Patrol confirms several people are dead due to the collapse. They also said several cars have been crushed.

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.

The bridge was constructed using an innovative approach to bridge construction – a technique meant to reduce potential risks to workers, commuters and pedestrians and prevented traffic tie-ups in the area.

As for traffic in the area, 8th Street is shutdown in both directions. Traffic is being re-routed through 117th Ave and 7th Street.

[BartSimpson]

It's a BRAND NEW BRIDGE!!!! WTF????

[fifeboy]

Wow, this is horrible. Some engineer, inspector or contractor should be in big trouble!

[Newsbot]

Title: Miami bridge collapse: 'Multiple deaths' after brand new $15m concrete walkway collapses
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: martin14
Date: 2018-03-15 11:55:40

[martin14]

Brand new bridge.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/r ... d-12195689

[DrCaleb]

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The bridge was constructed using an innovative approach to bridge construction – a technique meant to reduce potential risks to workers, commuters and pedestrians and prevented traffic tie-ups in the area.

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It's a BRAND NEW BRIDGE!!!! WTF????

I bet we'll find that 'innovative approach' meant 'cheap and sub standard'.



This is why Engineers are required to take law courses, and belong to professional organizations. Their work involves people's lives.

Also:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43418898

[martin14]

video of the bridge being installed a few days ago.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c ... 22324.html

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I bet we'll find that 'innovative approach' meant 'cheap and sub standard'.

I am so getting sick of most everything being engineered to the absolute minimum tolerance.

My wife and I were noticing this last night when our news said a local school was being closed because it was 'fifty years old and obsolete'.

Meanwhile in Heidelberg, Germany they're still using classrooms that were first used in 1386.

[ShepherdsDog]

Let's keep removing those regulations. Wonder where the steel came from?

[martin14]

Model of what they were trying to build. Cable stayed bridge with a central tower.

No tower, no cables installed.

Ummmm, you do the tower first........

[BartSimpson]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Let's keep removing those regulations. Wonder where the steel came from?

Regulations don't fix stupidity. And in this case I'm 100% certain the regulators signed off on this installation.

As Martin pointed out here it's supposed to be a cable-stayed bridge and their engineering called for the unsupported bridge deck to be installed prior to the tower and cable supports.

This is truly innovative.

[BartSimpson]

Update from the Daily Mail.

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FULL TITLE: 'Up to 10' people crushed to death as 950-ton pedestrian bridge collapses on top of cars and pedestrians on Florida college campus - just five days after it was installed

Up to 10 people have been killed when a newly installed pedestrian bridge spanning several lanes of traffic collapsed at Florida International University on Thursday.

US Senator Bill Nelson of Florida told local TV station CBS Miami that between six to 10 people died.

The 174-foot 'instant bridge' hailed as a feat of engineering and safety, was installed Saturday morning but was not due to open to the public until 2019.

At least six injured people were taken away from the scene and eight vehicles were trapped in the bridge wreckage, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said in an interview with CBS Miami.

One person was suffering from cardiac arrest, Gimenez said.

Television images captured from helicopter show numerous cars crushed by the weight of the bridge.

Images also show a number of emergency rescue workers crawling along the rubble in an attempt to spot survivors.

[xerxes]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Let's keep removing those regulations. Wonder where the steel came from?

Regulations don't fix stupidity. And in this case I'm 100% certain the regulators signed off on this installation.

As Martin pointed out here it's supposed to be a cable-stayed bridge and their engineering called for the unsupported bridge deck to be installed prior to the tower and cable supports.

This is truly innovative.

Innovative in its stupidity that is.

Still, this is awful..

[martin14]

$1:

FIU has deleted statements on social media and press releases from earlier this week touting the construction of the bridge.

bit late for that.

[ShepherdsDog]

OK, let's hope it's not the same company as the one that built the new Johnson St. Bridge. I think that was made with Chinese steel.