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The key line IMO: Tretten Bridge was designed while building regulations in Norway were in transition from a national system to European codes. Provisi
by mperham 2y ago
The key line IMO:
Tretten Bridge was designed while building regulations in Norway were in transition from a national system to European codes.
Provisions for this transitional period enabled the project to follow the older national standards, which unlike the Eurocodes did not account for block shear failure.
- 3D30497420 2y agoKind of. I should have thought the engineers involved would have been good enough to design a bridge that would have lasted more than a decade, even if the regulations weren't as rigorous.
- blackbear_ 2y agoSomehow I feel like it's not the engineers who needed the regulations...
- Quekid5 2y agoOne would hope... but corporate structures can apply a LOT of pressure which can end up impairing judgment or resistance to decisions by higher-level executives. It might or might not be the issue here, but it's definitely been seen in past disasters. (It's similar to the more readily/well understood "peer pressure", but even more insidious.)
- anigbrowl 2y agoYeah, I'm not sure why the editorial focus on 'aesthetics'.