Bruce Landsberg laments the "group think" that pervaded the FIU bridge project's team members and led to the collapse that killed six people in March 2018.
The National Transportation Safety Board last came down hard on engineering and construction in 2007. Did group-think obscure last year's unfolding disaster in Florida?
Following a nearly six-month investigation, the Washington State Dept. of Labor & Industries has issues its findings in the collapse of a crane in Seattle on April 27 that killed three people, including two ironworkers dismantling the crane at the time.
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.