Houston Ship Channel Bridge 4

[StressGuy]

Certainly an engineering failure and a financial disaster:

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Houston Chronicle Article - Paywall

Edward L. Klein
Pipe Stress Engineer
Houston, Texas

"All the world is a Spring"

All opinions expressed here are my own and not my company's.

 

[thebard3]

Some kind of alternate reality going on at Figg.

https://www.figgbridge.com/ship-channel-bridge

Brad Waybright

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

 

[phamENG]

Might be a legal thing? Taking down the project from your website portfolio is tantamount to admitting fault? I noticed the EOR for the Hard Rock that collapsed still has "construction to be completed next spring" (or something to that effect) on their website.

 

[Craig Neth]

Some kind of alternate reality going on at Figg.

More likely, they are just really slow at updating their website or had to let go whomever was doing that for them. Can't imagine business is good for them right now...
The last post on the 'News' page is from Summer 2020, all the copyrights say 2020, etc.

Can someone knowledgable comment on that COWI report? To this software guy, it reads like Figg (again?) didn't 'do their homework' properly? Although it reads like maybe the contractor also dropped the ball or didn't do a thorough analysis?

 

[LionelHutz]

Did FIGG start worrying more about art and less about function?

 

[waross]

Another Figged up bridge?

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Ohm's law
Not just a good idea;
It's the LAW!

 

[bimr]

It is difficult to understand why Linda Figg never bothered to get a professional license. It is very unusual that a business of this type doesn't have a person with a professional license leading the firm.

I don't know the latest news, but FIGG Bridge Engineers and C. Denney Pate (Engineer of Record) both received a 10-year debarment of Federal money which would presumably put them out of business.

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[MacGyverS2000]

But there’s a big problem with getting that evidence: three months after the collapse, the phone used by the most important engineer on the project suffered “water damage” before anyone tried to back up its contents.

So what? Data is stored in Flash memory, so even dunked in water, a recovery engineer could relatively easily yank that chip and pull out the data. But that's unlikely to happen now.

Dan - Owner

http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com

 

[Craig Neth]

Well, yes, but it can be fairly difficult to 'yank the chip'. I've worked on cell phones where the processor and flash dies were stacked on top of each other in one package, these are BGA parts with many pins and an odd interface.

Also, if the phone was turned on while wet it's possible there could be a short that would fry the chip, package balls or leads can become corroded, etc.

I'm sure the FBI/CIA/NSA can do stuff like this, but your garden variety data recovery service isn't going to be able to do stuff like this. If it doesn't boot, they'll tell you it's gone.

 

[MacGyverS2000]

This is not a nation-state only capability... any decent recovery service can handle this.

Dan - Owner

http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com