<story><title>&quot;Strong focus on aesthetics&quot; contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge</title><url>https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/11/tretten-bridge-collapse-norway-timber/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tretten_Bridge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tretten_Bridge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ironic part is &amp;quot;The bridge replaced a steel truss bridge built in 1895 at the same location&amp;quot;. Engineers in 1895 knew how to use steel trusses and built a bridge that lasted 100+ years, and in 2012 they decided to use glued wooden beams and it fell apart in 10 years.&lt;p&gt;Well perhaps Plan Arkitekter and Norconsult can take a trip to the archives and see what the engineers in 1895 knew before building any more structures.</text></comment>
<story><title>&quot;Strong focus on aesthetics&quot; contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge</title><url>https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/11/tretten-bridge-collapse-norway-timber/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mperham</author><text>The key line IMO:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Tretten Bridge was designed while building regulations in Norway were in transition from a national system to European codes.
    Provisions for this transitional period enabled the project to follow the older national standards, which unlike the Eurocodes did not account for block shear failure.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>