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 11: Tacoma Bridge Collapse
The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge is one of the world's most recognised structural failures.
Were there any warnings from history that this failure could have occurred, and more importantly, if failures like this had ever happened at the past - why did we as a profession forget the lessons learned?
Footage of the bridge collapse can be viewed on YouTube https://youtu.be/j-zczJXSxnw
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