Editor's note: This story updates and corrects the Oct. 7 ENR print edition version, where FIGG's name was inserted in a paragraph in error and the company's statement was incorrectly reported in part.
About half an hour before the almost-completed pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a busy Miami-area road last year, killing six people, Denney Pate, the bridge’s engineer-of-record, sent a text to Linda Figg, the chief executive of FIGG Bridge Engineers.