Baltimore bridge collapse: Can engineers prevent similar disasters?
02 April 2024
The world watched in horror last week as Baltimore’s iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River, killing six construction workers. Lucy Barnard asks what engineering and construction companies can do to prevent the risk of something like this happening again.
The world looked on in horror last week as Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after one of its supports was struck by a Singapore-flagged Dali cargo ship.
At the time of writing, the search for six missing construction workers thought to have been repairing potholes on the bridge…
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