Collapsed Florida pedestrian bridge had significant design errors: NTSB

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/collapsed-florida-pedestrian-bridge-had-
significant-design-errors-ntsb/

The Florida pedestrian bridge that killed six and injured 10 when it
collapsed onto the roadway last year, had significant design errors, the
National Transportation Safety Review Board determined at a Tuesday
hearing.

The 950-ton bridge, meant to eventually link Florida International
University to the nearby Miami suburb of Sweetwater, came crashing down in
March 2018.

At a federal hearing on the tragedy in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, the NTSB
said it was outlining the “probable cause” of the collapse before putting
out its final report, USA Today reported.

“The FIGG design made significant errors in the determination of loads,”
NTSB staffer Dan Walsh said of the board’s findings at the hearing,
referring to Tennessee-based FIGG Bridge Engineers.

The board determined a year ago that FIGG engineers overestimated how much
stress the bridge could endure, the paper reported.

Only two days before the brand-new structure went down, an engineer left a
voicemail with officials and warned that some cracking had been found at
one end of the concrete span.

In the voicemail, FIGG’s lead engineer on the project, Denney Pate,
acknowledged that the cracking would need repairs, “but from a safety
perspective we don’t see that there’s any issue there, so we’re not
concerned about it from that perspective.”

Walsh also noted that the construction was at “high risk” due to the
bridge’s complex design — but that the university was overseeing the
project and the state Transportation Department was not required to have
an inspector present.

“Our recommendations address this issue, that FDOT should have more
authority on this type of project,” he added, according to the report.

The $14.2 million structure, which would have been 289 feet long and 109
feet tall at completion, was being constructed under the university’s
“accelerated bridge construction” methods.

Under those methods, larger pieces are constructed away from traffic,
instead of having several smaller pieces placed together above a busy
road, USA Today reported.

The collapse did not appear to be a consequence of those methods, Walsh
said, according to the outlet.



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