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Originally Posted by fotze
They never did fix the welds they found someone to sign off on them.
Graham probably should have checked some stuff before moving 400 tonnes (or whatever the weight was) of steel across the ocean.
That hometown rumour is false as well unless you consider Halifax to be Calgary since the two cities are on complete opposite sides of Spain.
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Except that Spain is what the same size as The lower chunk of Alberta in terms of area. There was obviously a welding screw up by the Spanish fabricator, and someone had to work on it after it arrived on site to strengthen the wrong welds, whether it ever got done to the original spec or not.
I know that most engineers do not know their elbow from their arse when it comes to welding and often show terrible weld details on their drawings, and have even less of a clue about how someone would actually go about doing the weld. Chances are the original welds specified were way beyond what was required. Doesn't excuse these Spanish clowns for doing it wrong, or not demanding clarification, but Graham may feel that they have a case based on how bad the contract documents are, and what the Engineering company was like to deal with. But Graham did not do their homework here and slipped big time on Quality Assurance.
Still to me it's funny. Calgary tax payers are angry that this bridge cost too much and was a waste of money....the General Contractor lost several million dollars because they could not complete the project for anywhere near that price tag. Just imagine if tax payers had to pay what it actually cost to build that bridge. But at least the Architect got in a magazine by screwing over two parties for a lot of money to agree to build his magnificent creation.