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    Collapsed Florida bridge was built using a technique that was intended to save lives

    by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times Mar 16, 2018 3 minutes

    In 2010, a group of bridge engineering experts met at Florida International University in Miami to push an idea: Infrastructure around America was crumbling, and the nation needed new bridges. A lot of them.

    But bridges often took a long time to build, leading to clogged traffic, irritated commuters and more workers working in dangerous areas where they could get hit by cars.

    So the experts created an academic center to advance a technique called Accelerated Bridge Construction, in which bridges are built off-site and, when ready, moved

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