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About 20 months after the 1.1-km-long Polcevera viaduct in Genoa, Italy, collapsed and caused 43 deaths, the last span of its replacement went up the week of April 27.
Authorities say incessant rainfall in northwest Italy caused a Nov. 24 landslide that took out a 65-ft section of the Madonna del Monte viaduct on the A6 highway, which connects Turin with the coastal city of Savona.
An overweight vehicle is thought to have caused the collapse early on Nov. 18 of a roughly 150-meter-long steelwork suspension bridge in Mirepoix-sur-Tarn, a French village 30 km northeast of Toulouse.
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?
In its Oct. 22 announcement of the probable cause of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse, officials with the National Transportation Safety Board characterized the investigation as one of its most complex.
Nearly 14 months after the Morandi viaduct collapsed in Genoa, Italy, killing 43 people, crews placed the first section of a 1,067-meter-long, 19-span steel and concrete replacement structure.
On the surface, it seemed like an outrageous defensive move following a painful tragedy. Louis Berger Group has refused requests from the Dept. of Labor to hand over emails with FIGG Bridge Engineers about its peer review of the ill-fated Florida International University pedestrian bridge.
