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Why bridges collapse, director, producer, Martin Gorst

Label
Why bridges collapse, director, producer, Martin Gorst
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rating: TV-PG
Main title
Why bridges collapse
Medium
videorecording DVD
Responsibility statement
director, producer, Martin Gorst
Runtime
60
Series statement
Nova
Summary
On a rainy August morning in 2018, a massive section of the Polcevera Bridge in Genoa, Italy, collapsed and killed 43 people, despite having withstood fifty years of traffic. All over American and Europe, thousands of bridges are listed as structurally deficient -- how can new technologies and engineering improvements make bridges safer?
Target audience
adult
resource.filmdirector
resource.filmproducer