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Scott Judy and Richard Korman | ENRSoutheast | May 24, 2018<\/p>\n

A final determination of the deadly accident’s cause could take 24 months<\/h2>\n
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Elevation of the pedestrian bridge that collapsed in March, recently released by the National Transportation Safety Board. It shows the location of cracks in photos in the text below (a third image of the cracks is not shown).<\/div>\n
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The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report on the fatal collapse in March of a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University in Sweetwater\u00a0focuses attention on the widely discussed pre-collapse cracking in the main span. The report also confirms accounts\u00a0about what the\u00a0construction crew working on the bridge\u00a0was doing before the structure fell.<\/p>\n

But the report\u00a0contains no definitive explanation of what occurred. Additional months, and possibly years,\u00a0will be needed to determine\u00a0the probable cause of the\u00a0failure, which killed five motorists and one project worker.<\/p>\n

Issued May 23, the NTSB report\u00a0states that while the board “is evaluating the emergence of cracks” in diagonal members located at both ends of the bridge, it is also studying “the propagation of cracks” near diagonal member 11, located at the structure’s north end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Photo 1: An image accidentally released by the National Transportation Safety Board earlier this month to the Miami Herald showing a crack in the region of bridge diagonal 11.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A video of the collapse appears to show the failure starting at that part of the concrete truss bridge’s main span.<\/p>\n

Seven vehicles beneath the 174-ft-long bridge\u00a0were occupied at the time of the collapse early in the afternoon of March 15. The partially constructed pedestrian bridge was being built by a design-build joint venture called MCM-FIGG, consisting of contractor\u00a0MCM Construction and FIGG Engineers, both based in Florida.<\/p>\n

Following the design plan, five days before the collapse\u00a0construction crews “de-tensioned the bridge diagonal members on the north and south ends of the bridge,” the report states. At the time\u00a0of the accident, a construction crew was busy “re-tensioning the number 11 diagonal member connecting the canopy and the deck at the north end of the bridge,” according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Photo 2: A second photo of a crack in the region of diagonal 11 of the failed Florida International University pedestrian bridge. The cracks are a focus of federal investigators.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Much speculation about the cracks has been published.<\/p>\n

The project team’s knowledge of\u00a0pre-collapse cracking\u00a0in the bridge span was first reported on March 16,\u00a0when the Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT) released the transcript of a voice mail it had received from the bridge project’s lead engineer prior to the collapse.<\/p>\n

According to FDOT’s transcript of the voice mail, Denney Pate, of FIGG Bridge Engineers, tells the agency that the project team had “taken a look at [the cracking].”<\/p>\n

Pate then added, “Obviously some repairs or whatever will have to be done but from a safety perspective we don’t see that there’s any issue there so we’re not concerned about it.”<\/p>\n

Additionally, FIU acknowledged, the project team had met for more than two hours to discuss the cracking issue on the morning of the collapse.<\/p>\n

FIGG Bridge Engineers says that it can’t comment on the interim report and that it is cooperating with the NTSB on its investigation, which “is still in the early fact-finding stages.”<\/p>\n

Moving forward, NTSB plans to conduct “additional forensic examination of several bridge structural components and destructive testing of multiple core and steel samples.”<\/p>\n

Also, the\u00a0NTSB stated that “all aspects of the collapse remain under investigation,” including the bridge design plans.<\/p>\n

Lawsuits and Liability<\/strong><\/p>\n

A final report on the FIU bridge collapse\u2014which will include determination of a probable cause plus recommendations to avoid future accidents\u2014likely won’t come until 2019, or possibly 2020, says the NTSB. Investigations involving fatalities usually take between 12 and 24 months to complete, the board stated.<\/p>\n

One of the first\u00a0lawsuits\u2014filed on behalf of FIU student Emily Joy Panagos, whose car was crushed\u2014suggests that post-tensioning triggered the failure that brought down the structure. The lawsuit alleges that the post-tensioning compressed the diagonal so that it overstressed a joint in the top chord, triggering hinge failure at a connection in the lower chord. That resulted in the catastrophic failure of the rest of the 174-ft-long structure.<\/p>\n

Aside from the technical aspects of the tragedy, the legal and\u00a0financial ramifications are likely to be severe.<\/p>\n

One possibility, legal experts say, is that the two companies in the design-build joint venture\u2014MCM actually employed FIGG on the project\u2014will end up squaring off over the costs.<\/p>\n

FIGG’s liability could hinge partly on whether it recommended, designed or supervised the work involving tension rods or cables being performed on the bridge the day of the collapse.<\/p>\n

“When it comes to liability of a design-build joint venture, and the team is\u00a0jointly and severally liable, within the team there will be what are called indemnity contribution claims,” says Judah Lifschitz, an attorney who is a principal and co-president of Washington, D.C.-based Shapiro, Lifschitz and Schram.\u00a0“And each party\u00a0will have its own insurers.”<\/p>\n

The companies and insurers involved in a costly accident, says Lifschitz, “often look to the other companies, such as their subcontractors and suppliers, to share the pain.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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