TheBridgeEng · Learning from Failure
Netherlands · Construction stage · 2 deaths · 136 m steel arch bridge for the N346 over the Twentekanaal, about 1,300 t, arch sections fabricated in Ghent and assembled on site
Arch sections were being hoisted into place by cranes on the morning of 21 February…
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