M1 Bridge Collapse - Grayston Drive

[Geoff.D]

Quality is irrelevant as long as those BEE quotas are met. This is why South Africa will become another failed state.

You still believe there is more to go wrong before we can be considered to be a "failed state"?

I admire your optimism .....

 

[skyhawk]

Quality is irrelevant as long as those BEE quotas are met. This is why South Africa will become another failed state.

Something goes wrong, its the blacks. Racism will never end.

 

[supersunbird]

Reminds me of the letter addressed by a law firm to the Left Handed Kennel (Lieutenant Colonel) at the police station

 

[MrGray]

Something goes wrong, its the blacks. Racism will never end.

Are you trolling all the threads now? Out of curiosity, does Luthuli House pay you by the post, hourly, or are you on retainer?

To respond to your misguided vitriol, although I should know better than to engage a known troll, what is being criticised here is a racially based system/policy of advancement that produces poor results in all fields from construction to journalism, not a race group. It's a distinction that I know you'll be sure to ignore for political noddy points and to advance the racial divisiveness that seems to be your masters' new game plan.

Both the News24 and the EWN articles are examples of very poor journalism, particularly the News24 article, where it is impossible to sugarcoat a phrase like "gerdas in an actual direction" ("girders in an axial direction") as anything other than pure incompetence that would never have been tolerated in a newsroom that operated on any principle of merit.

 

[schumi]

Questions around evidence in M1 bridge collapse case

PRETORIA - The presiding officer in the inquiry into the deadly M1 bridge collapse has raised concerns over the evidence of an expert testifying on behalf of Murray & Roberts, saying it’s based on assumption and not fact.

Two people were killed and 19 others were injured when the temporary structure came crashing down on the busy highway last year.

More at: http://ewn.co.za/2016/07/08/M1-brid...vidence?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[schumi]

M1 bridge: I would have been concerned, says expert

An expert witness for construction contractor Murray & Roberts (M&R) on Tuesday confirmed M&R was responsible for checking the design of the temporary works for the Grayston pedestrian bridge, but failed to do so.

More at: http://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/comp...een-concerned-says-expert/?platform=hootsuite

 

[schumi]

Critical flaws in M1 bridge

Guidelines for the construction of a temporary bridge at Grayston Road in Sandton over the M1 were not implemented.

The temporary structure collapsed in October, killing two people and injuring several others.
Testifying at the inquiry into the collapse yesterday, civil engineer Richard Beneke, who studied the scaffolding company Forma-Scaff's drawings after the accident, said it was clear from the photographs that some "sections were completed only to a small extent, and that they were partially completed in the region around the support on each side of the M1 motorway".

More at: http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2016/07/13/Critical-flaws-in-M1-bridge

 

[schumi]

Strong winds caused M1 bridge collapse: Snowden

Murray & Roberts’ third expert witness Ric Snowden told the inquiry on Wednesday that strong winds together with other weaknesses in the structure were responsible for the bridge to collapse.

Snowden said it was a common cause that strong winds would have been the one that might have triggered the collapse of the bridge. He also alluded to the inquiry that the designs that were used for the construction of the bridge were inadequate.

More at: http://www.thenewage.co.za/wind-gust-and-other-factors-caused-the-m1-bridge-collapse-snowden/

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

More at: http://www.thenewage.co.za/wind-gust-and-other-factors-caused-the-m1-bridge-collapse-snowden/

What kind of English is this reporter employing?

 

[Geoff.D]

What kind of English is this reporter employing?

Sefrican English ....

 

[dlk001]

This is an interesting case. Can't wait for the outcome.

 

[schumi]

Grayston Bridge structure was flawed

The Labour Department Inquiry into the Grayston bridge collapse has been told the design of the structure was flawed hence the collapse.

This emerged during the cross examination of expert witness, Ric Snowdan.

He is one of the four witnesses from Murray and Roberts, the company that built the collapsed bridge.

Two people died and several others were injured in the collapse in October last year.

Ric Snowdan, an engineer by profession had been giving evidence on two consecutive days.

The inquiry is conducting the hearings in Pretoria to establish factors that could have led to the collapse of the Grayston Bridge in Sandton in October last year.

Led by expert engineer, Lennie Samuel the inquiry is scheduled to conduct the hearings until late November 2016.

More at: http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/d500c1...Grayston-Bridge-structure-was-flawed-20160714

 

[schumi]

Collapsed Sandton bridge scaffolding 'not erected properly'

Scaffolding supplier Form-Scaff is to argue that Murray & Roberts did not properly erect the scaffolding supporting the temporary Sandton bridge that collapsed on the M1 highway in October last year.

Cross-examining Murray & Roberts' expert witness - engineer Ric Snowden - at the inquiry into the accident yesterday, Form-Scaff lawyer William la Grange suggested that not all bars stabilising the scaffolding had been installed when the bridge was erected.

More at: http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes...ndton-bridge-scaffolding-not-erected-properly

 

[schumi]

Shocking short cuts by construction companies revealed

The inquiry into the Grayston bridge collapse has revealed shocking short cuts being taken by construction companies

South Africa’s building-industry code could be set for major changes following damning evidence of a cowboy culture and unprofessional practices that emerged during a probe into the collapse of a temporary structure over a highway in Johannesburg.

This week, at the inquiry in Pretoria, witnesses for construction company Murray & Roberts told commissioner Lennie Samuel about gaps in building law standards and practices, such as starting construction when building plans were still incomplete.

“We will make recommendations for legislation or amendments where there are gaps [to ensure] the health and safety of workers,” Samuel told City Press.

More at: http://city-press.news24.com/Busine...s-by-construction-companies-revealed-20160717

 

[schumi]

Grayston inquiry: ‘I would’ve re-designed bridge drawings’

Construction firm Murray & Roberts’s third expert witness, Ric Snowden, told the M1/Grayston Drive pedestrian and cyclist structural bridge collapse inquiry that based on the drawings he had seen, if he were a designer of the temporary works structure he would have redesigned the structure taking into account that the stand-alone structure erected by Murray & Roberts was not as per the drawings.

Snowden testified on the importance of sequencing further emphasising the issue of adequate bracing, saying this was critical in all phases of the work. He said had bracing been done adequately the temporary works structure would not have collapsed.

“Although I was made aware of the deviations in the construction of the structure, this was a matter between Murray & Roberts and FormScaff,” he said.

More at: http://roodepoortnorthsider.co.za/l...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[upup]

Something goes wrong, its the blacks. Racism will never end.

At my work, even the black people laugh at the BEE companies, with there bad work, bad ... . I deal with a lot of BEE companies, so far only found one good one.

 

[dlk001]

And how did BEE come into this M1 Bridge Collapse?

Incompetence and corruption has no color in SA.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

their*

Have they outsourced the schools also?

 

[schumi]

M1 bridge collapse was a 'disaster waiting to happen'

An expert witness has detailed how the temporary bridge over the M1 in Sandton that collapsed in October last year was riddled with deviations, discrepancies and failed a scaffolding design compliance test.

Garry Farrow, who investigated the cause of the collapse for scaffolding supplier Form-Scaff, suggested the structure was a disaster waiting to happen because it was nothing like the design drawings.

Testifying at the inquiry into the accident in Pretoria yesterday, Farrow presented a summary of the number of scaffolding members indicated in the drawings compared to those installed on the structure.

More at: http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2016/07/22/M1-bridge-collapse-was-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen

 

[schumi]

South Africa: Labour's Grayston Drive Pedestrian Structural Bridge Inquiry Continues,

Representative from Form-Scaff, the supplier of material testifies in Department of Labour-appointed M1/Grayston Inquiry

The Department of Labour-appointed M1/Grayston Drive Pedestrian and cyclist structural bridge Inquiry will continue tomorrow (2 August 2016) after a week's recess with testimony from Form-Scaff, the company that provides an array of products and services to a range of construction and civil engineering industries.

A witness expert from Form-Scaff, will tomorrow take the stand. The Commission rounded its previous work a week ago with a site visit to the scene of the fatal accident on the M1/Grayston bridge. Murray & Roberts had made a presentation to the Commission in which it presented a number of models it had designed, in a bid to convince the Commission to provide it with the permission to start the reconstruction of the bridge.

More at: http://allafrica.com/stories/201608011219.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter