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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Seismic Safety Project, San Francisco County
Author: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Project
Author: Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Author: Karen Trapenberg FrickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317338510
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of the State’s and the region’s leading elected officials, engineers, architects and other members of the governing elites against a collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to $6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her final chapter – part epilogue, part reflection – provides recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.
Timeline of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Retrofit
Author: Daniel PollakPublisher:
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Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Disposal and Reuse of Naval Station Treasure Island, San Francisco
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Seismic Safety Project in the Counties of San Francisco and Alameda
Author: James M. AllanPublisher:
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Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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The Making and Un-making of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Author: Karen Trapenberg FrickPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Disposal and Reuse of Naval Station Treasure Island
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309050308
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco area on October 17, 1989, causing 63 deaths and $10 billion worth of damage. This book reviews existing research on the Loma Prieta quake and draws from it practical lessons that could be applied to other earthquake-prone areas of the country. The volume contains seven keynote papers presented at a symposium on the earthquake and includes an overview written by the committee offering recommendations to improve seismic safety and earthquake awareness in parts of the country susceptible to earthquakes.
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