Hongqi bridge collapse in China

[Slow.Patrol]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/watch-entire-s...

A few months after opening

Hope they don't use the same engineering team for their new London Embassy

[Lotobear]

Wow, ...doubtless Keir and Kasparov will be over there shortly negotiating some infrastructure contracts for the UK

[zetec]

Wow, surely some sort of design fault? Ordering bridge fixings from Aliexpress on the cheap has backfired.

[Super Sonic]

Due to landslide apparently.

[Gareth79]

Super Sonic said:

Due to landslide apparently.

That's not necessarily a getout either - possibly the instability could/should have been found during surveys. Or the construction itself might have contributed.

[andy43]

Geological surveys done by Temu.

[Slow.Patrol]

andy43 said:

Geological surveys done by Temu.

[gotoPzero]

The guy who makes tiny bridges on youtube over streams does a better job.

[richhead]

Slow.Patrol said:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/watch-entire-s...

A few months after opening

Hope they don't use the same engineering team for their new London Embassy

I was more surprised to see that yahoo was still a thing.

[JuanCarlosFandango]

Lotobear said:

Wow, ...doubtless Keir and Kasparov will be over there shortly negotiating some infrastructure contracts for the UK

It will be good as new by 2080.

[Chestrockwell]

I'm not a chinese bot, nor am I a fan of the CCP party however I do admire chinese engineering. They have a lot of bridges like that, never hear about them collapsing like that, looks like a landslide

[hidetheelephants]

Bridges don't as a rule fall down; either the geo bods phoned it in from a pub or the engineers ignored the geo report and built it anyway.

[vladcjelli]

gotoPzero said:

The guy who makes tiny bridges on youtube over streams does a better job.

This sounds like perfect background viewing while I'm doing something else.

What's the channel name?

[The Mad Monk]

Shame they didn't hold the phone in Landscape mode.

[ChocolateFrog]

They'll only need a long weekend to repair it.

[rodericb]

Chestrockwell said:

I'm not a chinese bot, nor am I a fan of the CCP party however I do admire chinese engineering. They have a lot of bridges like that, never hear about them collapsing like that, looks like a landslide

You'd probably have to be on Chinese social media to know about any of the other bridge collapses.

[gotoPzero]

vladcjelli said:

gotoPzero said:

The guy who makes tiny bridges on youtube over streams does a better job.

This sounds like perfect background viewing while I'm doing something else.

What's the channel name?

Construction general is one and Tiny World is another.

There are probably others but those are the two I have watched before.

[Mr Whippy]

I’d suggest it was built right, and there was a risk it’d fall down in a landslide.
But the cost to alleviate that risk in that area basically meant it was too costly to provide a bridge.

But they needed a bridge.


It’s not rocket science, it’s civil engineering, and I ask that you all act accordingly please.

[hidetheelephants]

Mr Whippy said:

I d suggest it was built right, and there was a risk it d fall down in a landslide.
But the cost to alleviate that risk in that area basically meant it was too costly to provide a bridge.

But they needed a bridge.


It s not rocket science, it s civil engineering, and I ask that you all act accordingly please.

Civil engineering wouldn't have built a bridge likely to fall down, only politics or maybe corruption does that. They did not need a bridge, they wanted a bridge for political reasons.

[fido]

ChocolateFrog said:

They'll only need a long weekend to repair it.

Well exactly. There's a very famous bridge near me that has been closed since 2019 causing huge traffic jams since so we can hardly gloat as we can't even repair an existing bridge.