Alexander Luzula | Staff Writer Students, faculty, administration and community members gathered March 15 to observe the fifth anniversary of the fatal 8th Street bridge collapse. At 1:40 p.m., the FIU community gathered at the Alexa M. Duran Memorial Plaza outside the Green Library, where President Jessell met with the family of Duran and spoke […]
Kelly Diaz-Rios and Maya Washburn / PantherNOW Staff Four years after the FIU pedestrian bridge collapse, the university unveiled a statue in honor of an FIU student who died that day. The collapse of the bridge on SW 8th St. and 109th Ave. claimed the lives of six victims on Mar. 15, 2018, including Alexa […]
Diego Diaz / Asst. News Director After nearly two years of litigation, the family of one of six people killed in the 2018 FIU bridge collapse has privately settled its lawsuit against the engineering consulting firm Louis Berger Group. All other claims against the engineering firms that were involved in the bridge construction were previously […]
Denitsa Raichkova/Contributing Writer Building bridges is the theme of 2021. This statement might not hold true in the political and social arenas. It can, however, be taken literally – build the FIU bridge on Southwest 8th Street. On March 15, 2018, the 174-foot-bridge, designed to connect Florida International University and the city of Sweetwater, collapsed. […]
Humberto Mendez Prince/Staff Writer It has been almost three years after the FIU bridge tragedy, a project that would connect the residents of adjacent neighborhoods with the University, plummeted on top of pedestrians. This tragedy caused the death of six people and injuring 10 others. It was determined that a flaw in the design of […]
Gerard Albert III and Joshua Ceballos/PantherNOW Staff An engineering company contracted to independently review the FIU bridge was never qualified to do so, according to documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board. Louis Berger, one of two engineering firms tapped review the design of the bridge before it ultimately fell on Thursday, March 15 […]
Joshua Ceballos/Staff Writer Just a few days before students got back to another semester of staring at the remains of the infamous FIU bridge, five individuals were spotted walking on top of the would-be bridge’s support beams. On Thursday, Aug. 22, five men were doing work on and around the concrete support of the failed […]
