LOL: ‘Instant’ bridge to make dangerous crossing safer for students

[cheka.]

at florida INTERNATIONAL univ -- affrm action at work?? {--->)

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/west-miami-dade/article204506084.html

‘Instant’ bridge aims to make a dangerous crossing safer for thousands of students

Instant bridge? Not quite, but in a single morning Florida International University dropped a new elevated pedestrian span into place over the Tamiami Trail to provide students a safe route over the perilous roadway for the first time.

Once it’s finished in early 2019, the new pedestrian bridge will link FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus directly to the small suburban city of Sweetwater, where the university estimates 4,000 of its students live.

The innovative installation method significantly reduced risks to workers, pedestrians and motorists and minimized traffic disruptions, FIU said. The architecturally distinctive, cable-supported bridge is the product of a collaboration between MCM Construction and FIGG Bridge Design, the firm responsible for the iconic Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay.



Students and faculty have long been clamoring for a bridge at the 109th Street crossing, where students on foot have to get across seven lanes of jam-packed traffic that divide the campus from Sweetwater. Though FIU provides shuttles, many students prefer to walk. In August, FIU undergraduate Alexis Dale was hit and killed by a motorist while crossing the intersection.

The $14.2 million bridge, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, also includes new sidewalks and a plaza. The project will also boast benches, tables, shade and even Wi-Fi. It’s all part of a broader FIU-led “prosperity” project that aims to curb traffic congestion in the area and help Sweetwater improve its downtown, which sits just north of the bridge.

Under that plan, private developers are building a cluster of apartment towers that cater to FIU students, all to be linked to campus by the new pedestrian bridge. The 109 Tower and 4th Street Commons are already open.

A third, the 866-unit University Bridge Apartments, is scheduled to break ground in June. The new bridge will lead directly to its doorstep.

[cheka.]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/west-miami-dade/article205316174.html

FIU pedestrian bridge collapses days after installation; police say multiple deaths, cars trapped

[osoab]

Looks like they took the shoring out.

Here is how it was set.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1fCeo4CpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1fCeo4CpQ

[Cebu_4_2]

From that vid looks like the bridge was about 6 foot too narrow to fit?

[ziero0]

Maybe next time they will just build a tunnel? If they did likely it would turn into a sink hole that would devour the city of Sweetwater.

[Cebu_4_2]

Maybe next time they will just build a tunnel? If they did likely it would turn into a sink hole that would devour the city of Sweetwater.


Or fill with water, teach an ignorant kid to fish and he will run to moms basement for a lifetime.

[Horn]

From that vid looks like the bridge was about 6 foot too narrow to fit?

If I were the designer, I'd have the pedestrians ontop of the span, not traversing the interior of the span.

Some cushion would be available to them.

[latemetal1]

Low bid special with a non-union work force, that would be my guess. The school was not in session or the death toll would have been much higher.

[madfranks]

“In our 40-year history, nothing like this has ever happened before,” the company’s statement said. “Our entire team mourns the loss of life and injuries associated with this devastating tragedy, and our prayers go out to all involved.”Your thoughts and prayers aren't enough, we need to take action to ensure our children are safe when they go to school. How many more lives will it take until we enact sensible bridge legislation and ban gigantic bridges? Nobody needs a bridge this big!

[Down1]

Not seeing any good info about this today.

[Joshua01]

Low bid special with a non-union work force, that would be my guess. The school was not in session or the death toll would have been much higher.

9760

[midnight rambler]

9760

Affirmitive Action for the win!!

[Joshua01]

Don't forget the vagina....very important!
Affirmitive Action for the win!!

[Horn]

I see what happened now,

the final field test money were spent on lipstick and false eyelashes.

Ouch!

[cheka.]

yup, that's it -- as speculated in post 1 of this thread. affirm action for the win. read that this company has hired sixty something 'studentz' from florida INTERNATIONAL u

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fiu-pedestrian-bridge-collapses-in-miami-10176573

Munilla noted that the company's project executive, Leonor Flores, is herself an FIU graduate. On Sat., the local community gathered to watch the 950-ton @FIU Pedestrian Bridge move into place. In the crowd was FIU alumna & MCM's Project Exec. Leonor Flores, who got to share her work with her family.

[Dachsie]

The bridge story is just another newer form of false flag terrorism, only this kind of state-sponsored violence and terrorism and murder of the innocents is of the endemic kind, that is, engineered gradually into our society over several decades.

Since our government and whole society has been engineered to only stay standing only if it operates within the Saul Alinsky bribery/extortion/blackmail grid, the existence of standards of right and good and rule of law are no longer relevant or operative.

Please do not fall in to superficial analysis of this false flag terrorism.

[Horn]

Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted late Thursday that engineers were tightening cables on the bridge when it fell onto the roadway. He followed it up Friday night with another tweet noting that a video showed “construction crews were working on the diagonal beam at the north end of bridge applying ‘posttensioning force‘ to strengthen it“ moments before the collapse

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/03/16/engineer-of-fiu-bridge-reported-cracks-in-structure-to-fdot-days-before-collapse-318961

[cheka.]

kollege is 90+ percent non-white

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/florida-international-university/student-life/diversity/chart-ethnic-diversity.html

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bridge bulder: munilla

https://www.constructiondive.com/press-release/20160727-munilla-construction-management-mcm-wins-66m-contract-to-build-school-at/

......is certified as a minority-owned firm with the Southern Florida Minority Supplier Development Council. For more information, visit www.mcm-us.com or call 305.541.0000.

[EE_]

kollege is 90+ percent non-white

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/florida-international-university/student-life/diversity/chart-ethnic-diversity.html

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bridge bulder: munilla

https://www.constructiondive.com/press-release/20160727-munilla-construction-management-mcm-wins-66m-contract-to-build-school-at/

......is certified as a minority-owned firm with the Southern Florida Minority Supplier Development Council. For more information, visit www.mcm-us.com or call 305.541.0000.

I'm sure the bridge was built with 90+ percent non-white too.

[JDRock]

Idiots used bolts from china and india marked #8 for weight bearing. Stupid asses trusting chinks and sheenies to engineer steel parts.

[Dachsie]

Idiots used bolts from china and india marked #8 for weight bearing. Stupid asses trusting chinks and sheenies to engineer steel parts.

If Q's recent cryptic references to bridges and deliberately sabotaged steel products fabrication refers to this bridge event, then low quality construction materials or construction methods was all planned. Do not blame people who did the building of low quality steel parts out of low quality or wrong kind of steel nor people who work for substandard wages and do poor and unsupervised low quality work. That was all as planned as something to blame this on rather than the real perps.

[JohnQPublic]

Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted late Thursday that engineers were tightening cables on the bridge when it fell onto the roadway. He followed it up Friday night with another tweet noting that a video showed “construction crews were working on the diagonal beam at the north end of bridge applying ‘posttensioning force‘ to strengthen it“ moments before the collapse

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/03/16/engineer-of-fiu-bridge-reported-cracks-in-structure-to-fdot-days-before-collapse-318961


He was wrong. They had not installed any cables yet. They might have been tweaking the post tensioning members. Unfortunately they chose to do it with live traffic going underneath.

[latemetal1]

My bosses buy low bid items, then the second time they buy the good stuff...

[madfranks]

Idiots used bolts from china and india marked #8 for weight bearing. Stupid asses trusting chinks and sheenies to engineer steel parts.If this fact ever makes it to the mainstream news sites, Trump’s plans for tariffs will rise in popularity 1000000%!

[madfranks]

He was wrong. They had not installed any cables yet. They might have been tweaking the post tensioning members. Unfortunately they chose to do it with live traffic going underneath.
No bridge of this size should be able to be installed with live traffic underneath.

[midnight rambler]

No bridge of this size should be able to be installed with live traffic underneath.

But...but...but, our engineers are really, really smart!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYn8W_wsHVs

[EE_]

My bosses buy low bid items, then the second time they buy the good stuff...

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten

[Cebu_4_2]

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten Forgot that saying, was the '70s perhaps the '60s: The price of quality is long forgotten when the sweetness of a low price for complete shit. Or something like that. I have to dig in the archives for an actual card stating this.

[JohnQPublic]

Here is the best video to describe what happened:

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/974894411921461248

[Dachsie]

Here is the best video to describe what happened:

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/974894411921461248

I see the video but I do not hear or read a description and I do not know how to interpret the video other than I cannot see how on God's green earth THEY could do that procedure while there were cars and people moving underneath. It would be kind of amusing to hear their rationale for such an absurd and unsafe, severe injuries and deaths waiting to happen, maneuver.

[osoab]

Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted late Thursday that engineers were tightening cables on the bridge when it fell onto the roadway. He followed it up Friday night with another tweet noting that a video showed “construction crews were working on the diagonal beam at the north end of bridge applying ‘posttensioning force‘ to strengthen it“ moments before the collapse

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/03/16/engineer-of-fiu-bridge-reported-cracks-in-structure-to-fdot-days-before-collapse-318961

They were post-tensioning the slab with traffic flowing under? Fucking morons.

They don't do many tensioned slabs where I live. The one project I was involved with had issues. While the crew was tensioning the slab, and the strands popped. Knocked out a 50' x 30' jagged hunk of concrete on the underside. I was told it sounded like a bomb going off when the event occurred. The slab in that area was about 12-18" thick. The project would have been done about twice as fast as a steel structure with a poured top slab.

[JDRock]

How long will we allow the senseless killing of students by bridges?? SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE HERE! The time for debate is over- BAN ALL BRIDGES AND MAKE AMERICA SAFE! Wheres david hogg??

[cheka.]

http://sandrarose.com/2018/03/diversity-fail-women-engineering-team-behind-collapse-miami-pedestrian-bridge/

http://sandrarose.com/images28/mcm-builder-549x411.jpg

The all-women engineering team that designed the ill-fated pedestrian foot bridge at Miami’s Florida International University were highly touted for their advances in a field that is typically dominated by men.

MCM hailed Flores and her all-women design team in celebratory social media posts on Twitter.com in the hours before the deadly collapse.

But critics are pointing the finger of blame at the female engineers for design flaws that may have brought the bridge down.

MCM was awarded the $14.2 million minority contract to design and build the cable-stayed bridge. The company is well-connected in Miami politics and it promotes inclusion and diversity in the workforce.

According to Politico.com, Munilla Construction is “about as politically connected as they get in Florida.”

The FIU foot bridge was designed to be supported from above by a system of thick steel cables (see illustration) and a reinforced concrete center support column. But the cables and the center column had not been installed before the 950 ton, 174-foot bridge was moved into place over 8th street on Saturday.

Sen. Marco Rubio, who lives a few miles from FIU, rushed to the scene of the collapse and shared insider information that the cables were “being tightened” before the bridge collapsed.

It isn’t clear if Rubio was referring to the missing cables that were not installed on the bridge.

After the collapse, MCM stated the cables were not scheduled to be installed on the bridge until 2019. The company did not explain what temporary supports were being used.

[ziero0]

The company did not explain what temporary supports were being used.


temporary (adj.)

"lasting only for a time," 1540s, from Latin temporarius "of seasonal character, lasting a short time," from tempus (genitive temporis) "time, season" (see temporal, late 14c., which was the earlier word for "lasting but for a time").

[jimswift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucflj-MsJBI&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucflj-MsJBI&feature=youtu.be

[Down1]

They be designing womyns.
That could be a good TV show.

Some links to shoddy China companies.

Who Supplied the Concrete for the FIU Bridge?

Mexican company CEMEX supplied the concrete for the collapsed bridge, and CEMEX has Chinese connections that go back several years.

CEMEX’s operations in China, Tianjin and Qingdao, were awarded the “China Top 10 Influential Ready-mix Concrete Enterprise in 2010” prize during a sustainable development forum that took place in Wuhan, Hubei Province. __ http://www2.cemex.com/MediaCenter/Story/Story20110103.aspx
https://alfinnextlevel.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/china-style-bridge-collapse-in-florida-raises-questions/

I guess they give us the cement Americans companies refuse to give us.

[cheka.]

the thing was born out of obomba's 'tiger' program --- federal grants. i assume for anybody-but-white

http://82.221.129.208/.zc2.html

FIU was awarded $11.4 million in TIGER money for its University City Prosperity Project, which included the pedestrian bridge. Some 52 projects were awarded $458 million in that round of TIGER grants—known as TIGER V—using methodology that was later criticized by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for violating DOT’s own standards.

Touted with Titanic-like boasts, it was said to be the first pedestrian bridge constructed entirely of self-cleaning concrete, which uses titanium dioxide in the concrete to capture pollution and keep the structure white.

The bridge was supposed to last for more than 100 years and withstand a Category 5 hurricane.

Instead it came crashing down on people occupied cars within days of its construction.

[madfranks]

White male privilege is building a bridge and not having it fall down.

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/uploads/5/0A6f51W.jpg

[Cebu_4_2]

White male privilege is building a bridge and not having it fall down.

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/uploads/5/0A6f51W.jpg


I have not spent any time but I just cant fathom how they build those arches with bricks and it holds...

[Uncle Salty]

So are they saying it wasn't an all female engineering team now?

I wonder if FIU has a female bikini team...

[Joshua01]

They can say whatever they want. That ship has sailed and the feminists took a hit!
So are they saying it wasn't an all female engineering team now?

I wonder if FIU has a female bikini team...

[Horn]

Not sure how long the bridge were there?, This guy claims the bridge were still under construction.

there's a cut to some 3D architecture video about 7:38 thru that shows some spanner support were not yet in place.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioC61QW7SHQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtiTm2dKLgU

DOT is probably to blame for removing any blocking support to soon if that were the case.