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'Intolerable': When $768m bridge was being designed, engineers raised a red flag
Key takeaways
- A pier of the Bridgewater Bridge with two attached survey markers, which are used to monitor for unanticipated movement.
- An advisory team of engineers raised concerns about the design of the Bridgewater Bridge, with documents showing that they remained unsatisfied with the builder up until 2024, when the team was reportedly stood down.
- The state government says the bridge is certified as safe and compliant, and monitoring devices installed on its piers show it "has not experienced any unanticipated movement".
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A pier of the Bridgewater Bridge with two attached survey markers, which are used to monitor for unanticipated movement. (Supplied)
An advisory team of engineers raised concerns about the design of the Bridgewater Bridge, with documents showing that they remained unsatisfied with the builder up until 2024, when the team was reportedly stood down.
The ABC reported in February on a crack in one of the piers of the now-complete bridge, prompting one of the engineers involved in the project to share their wider concerns that work done on the bridge's foundations did not meet the standards set out in the contract.
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