Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Historical Review of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Seismic Retrofit Cost Increases
Author: Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Author: Karen Trapenberg FrickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317338502
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of the State’s and the region’s leading elected officials, engineers, architects and other members of the governing elites against a collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to $6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her final chapter – part epilogue, part reflection – provides recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Seismic Safety Project, San Francisco County
Author: Expert Technical Committee
Author: Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program
Author: Earthquake Spectra
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Project
Author: Department of Transportation
Author: California. Bureau of State AuditsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Road Taken
Author: Henry PetroskiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632863618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights--all crucial to our national and local infrastructure. A compelling work of history, The Road Taken is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, and Petroski reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in major infrastructure improvement. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity.
Author: