What If Engineers Had to Build The Golden Gate Bridge Today

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What If Engineers Had To Build The Golden Gate Bridge Today?

With the arrival of 1870, people had understood the need of having a bridge crossing the Golden Gate Strait to link the city of San Francisco with Marin County, California. Notwithstanding, it was another 50 years before Joseph Strauss a structural engineer, presented his bridge proposition. The designs developed, and the final project was affirmed as a suspension type of bridge that wound up taking four years to build.

At the point when the Golden Gate Bridge was constructed 80 years prior, it became the longest suspended bridge on the planet. How come the structure has held up – and would we implement things any other way in the event that we were to begin building it today?

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If such civil engineering related things catch your attention and you feel inclined, you can anytime undergo a civil engineering training program and begin working in this profession.


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