Show Notes
Report into the Incidents:
NTSB Final Report (PDF)
Design Criteria and Bid:
FIU Pedestrian Bridge Design Criteria Rev 0 (PDF)
FIU Pedestrian Bridge Design Criteria Rev 1 (PDF)
MCM / FIGG Proposal (PDF)
Civil Structural References:
Truss
Truss Bridges
Steel Bridge Design
What is Post-tensioning?
Prestressed, Pretensioned and Post-Tensioned Concrete
Engineer of Record Definition
Non-Destructive Concrete Evaluation & testing
Companies Involved:
Louis Berger is now part of WSP
WSP Global
FIGG Engineering
FIGG Bridge Engineers
Links of Potential Interest:
Florida bridge collapse has some hard lessons
Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse
University-City Prosperity Project
Meet the prominent Miami firm behind the collapsed FIU bridge
Miami Bridge Failure Part 3: The Peer Review
FHWA proposes 10-year debarment for FIGG Bridge Engineers
Louis Berger only firm refusing to settle FIU bridge collapse
Bankrupt construction company that built FIU bridge reaches deal to pay victims $42M
Lessons learnt 3 years since Florida tragedy
FHWA proposes 10-year debarment for FIGG Bridge Engineers
Judge Rejects FIGG’s Motion to Halt 10-Year Debarment
Riverside Expressway:
Glimmer of hope?
Riverside Expressway
Support Causality on PatreonEpisode Gold Producers:
'r' and Steven Bridle.Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, John Whitlow, Shane O'Neill, Kevin Koch, Oliver Steele, Lesley Law Chan, Hafthor and Bill.
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@allencpaul
1,000 sats
13 Apr
My son was a student at this university when the bridge collapsed and we drive that road frequently. I’m thankful for your careful research - sadly we had other structural failures in South Florida since then. I’d love to hear an episode on the building collapse in Surfside, FL. Def a fan even though I know next to nothing about engineering.
@johnchidgey
14 Apr
I started researching the Surfside collapse however I was waiting on a formal report to be released from NIST. I'll check back in again and see how that's getting along. Thank you!
@saintsandsats
500 sats
13 Apr
This is a fascinating show
@allencpaul
13 Apr
Thank you SO much for sharing this. I live in Miami and my son was a student at FIU when this happened - he or my family literally could have been on that road when the bridge collapsed. I’m grateful smart people are willing to evaluate why things went wrong.
@saintsandsats
15 Apr
hey thank @mrmr, found the show through his boost!
Wild that you were there at the time. Curious, what did the media say about the cause of the collapse locally? I remember seeing something on alt media like Zerohedge about “this is what happens when D&I meets engineering” but that was obviously nonsense.
@allencpaul
15 Apr
Here we heard much more talk about the problems with poor management, sweetheart deals with builders, and other malfeasance that usually accompanies Miami politics. I can’t say I was paying much attention as my thoughts were mostly how my son could have been on that road.
@johnchidgey
14 Apr
Glad you're enjoying the show :)