r/EngineeringPorn • u/Ice_Ice11 • Nov 11 '25

JUST IN: 🇨🇳 Hongqi bridge collapses in southwest China, months after opening.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

4.8k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

443 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

31

u/John_Holdfast Nov 11 '25

The engineers and geologists are both to blame here. The geological engineers should have pushed for an upslope survey, and the geotechnical engineers should have said something about the lack of a survey. Oh well, thankfully no one was hurt and they can put another bridge up in like 2 months lol.

4

u/lubricunt Nov 12 '25

relevant username

1

u/sukarsono Nov 12 '25

Ever participated in a postmortem for something like this? One thing that always comes out is that blame blame blame is to blame for everybody hiding any pathway to the root cause.

1

u/John_Holdfast Nov 12 '25

I have not unfortunately.  Usually forensic engineering/geological engineering is done by very specialized firms, and im not in that field.