> Usually in cable-stayed bridges, the towers are built first, and deck slabs incrementally hooked up to the shortest cables. But at FIU, the reverse seems to h

> Usually in cable-stayed bridges, the towers are built first, and deck slabs incrementally hooked up to the shortest cables. But at FIU, the reverse seems to have happened. Part of the prefabricated concrete deck went up first, and the tower had yet to be added when the collapse occurred. I had to read that a few times. Is that really what happened. So this is a design where the load is held mostly by the tower(s) and they just laid the bridge down first without the tower and were going to add the tower later.