A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we’d like to think.
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episode 18: Quebec Bridge Collapse
Can ego knock a bridge down? How one man's decisions caused the collapse of the Quebec Bridge.
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The Royal Commission Report into the collapse can be found at http://publications.gc.ca/site/archivee-archived.html?url=http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/bcp-pco/Z1-1907-5-1-1-eng.pdf
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