Was watching a docu on the I-35W collapse in Mpls. Some of this stuff seems pretty obvious. Gusset plates are either cracking or bending. Inspector who looked at them said something along the lines of
Well that's construction for ya.
Plus it was not identified in the chain-of-command to who it should be reported. You have all this construction machinery in a particular spot, or umpteen gallon water tank on it. Add a couple inches of new covering and there's another million pounds. These "i" brackets are fine till one of them breaks and the whole damn thing comes tumbling down. You look at a bridge and go
Wow that's a lot of bridge between pillars. I don't think bridge construction is that massive a concern if you stay on top of it, but a few of these incidents just seem dumb to me.
