New caunduay bridge collapses

I wonder if they will be required to pay back the money already paid for the construction so they can find a new construction company or at least make them rebuild it again from scratch off their own money. I'm betting though that they will just walk away saying the cash was already spent and its not their fault. After all the local politicians who got their cut aren't going to cough it back up or risk being ratted out if they hold the company accountable.

 

Maybe they can just donate a car to two to the cause and call it a slight cost overrun.....

 

Should have given the job to UY CONDEV, at least their roads appear to be able to last further than the next election cycle.

 

If its not too much money (like 20 pesos ha ha) I'll take that bet. The owner of PhilSouth is quite the Chinese Filipino businessman and he knows how things work here. His competitors will be taking full advantage of this bridge failure and my bet is that he will make it right rather than walk away saying its not their fault.

 

He's already lost face in front of UyCondev and the general public, I reckon you're right. Hopefully, their houses are better constructed than their bridges.

 

I went out and had a look at the bridge and think the fault lies with the cement supplier.
Attached are a couple of pictures. They show that the concrete literally turned into small pieces and "dust".
There was a lot of re-bar. The top cord seemed to have a lot. The bottom cord was not visible so who knows.
The bridge is arched slightly about 8-12" over a 60' span which looks about right IMO. The concrete would be in bulk modulus (compression mode) and should no have failed.

I met an Aussie that makes concrete paving stones for driveways and sidewalks. He got a batch of bad cement and his paving stones literally crumbled in his hands. The cement was manufactured on Cebu island. The factory actually replaced his 250 bags of bad cement and gave him another 250 bags to make up for his troubles. The cement factory said they only had 500 bags of the bad batch. Maybe there was more defective product and some of it may have ended up here.

At least the bridge failed before it was completed and people were using it.

 

Possibly bad cement, but more probably bad mix, saving money with materials, especially on government contracts is nothing new here.

 

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