> than they are figuring out why shit collapsed in the first place.
That's what the guy from the YT video is trying to do in the first place, while also naming things for how they really are.
> A bridge doesn’t collapse because someone was incompetent or fucked something up.
Yes, that's why a thing like a bridge collapses, because key people that were part of the process managed to fuck up. It's as simple as. That's what my dad's structural engineering professor told him and his student colleagues back in the '70s: "don't fuck up in your future job or people will die. You'll also most probably go to prison". Said professor didn't mention anything about systemic errors or anything like that, which actually means diluting the blame ("it was not me, it was the system").
Civil engineering is not like aeronautics, which has lots of moving parts, civil engineering is (mostly) a tried and tested discipline (like the 100+ years old bridge that was replaced by this new, fancier bridge can attest to). Yes, learn from mistakes, obviously, but also call people out and throw them in prison if people have died because of their incompetence.
Cathedrals were not built based on “risk management strategy”, but on builders not fucking up. The civil engineers that I know of (basically my dad and his friends from his generation) looked up to those builders from the Middle Ages, not to today’s management consultants instructing them about “systemic risks” and “strategy”. Granted, I do not know what today’s generation of civil engineers looks up to.
That's what the guy from the YT video is trying to do in the first place, while also naming things for how they really are.
> A bridge doesn’t collapse because someone was incompetent or fucked something up.
Yes, that's why a thing like a bridge collapses, because key people that were part of the process managed to fuck up. It's as simple as. That's what my dad's structural engineering professor told him and his student colleagues back in the '70s: "don't fuck up in your future job or people will die. You'll also most probably go to prison". Said professor didn't mention anything about systemic errors or anything like that, which actually means diluting the blame ("it was not me, it was the system").
Civil engineering is not like aeronautics, which has lots of moving parts, civil engineering is (mostly) a tried and tested discipline (like the 100+ years old bridge that was replaced by this new, fancier bridge can attest to). Yes, learn from mistakes, obviously, but also call people out and throw them in prison if people have died because of their incompetence.