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[Mr Crawford. Your statements concerning the Blackhall Place Bridge project are totally irresponsible and inaccurate.In fact some might say bordering on foolhardy. This bridge has been designed by Santiago Calatrava, who you should know, purporting as you are to be a student of architecture, as a very experiencd, well respected design house of international reput. However, I’m sure that the said design house will decide to follow up, or otherwise, with you directly on your opinion. As far as Harland and Wolff are concerned your statements have caused acute embarrassment and potential contractual difficulty, although I accept that you probably did not intend this to be the case. I know that unwanted advice is never welcome but you and your peers would be well advised to consider such things BEFORE committing to print. This is especially the case if and when you do progress to the role of architect or engineer when you will realise how important such contractual issues are, as I’m sure your lecturer will no doubt explain to you.
Chas Connery – Director of Projects.
QUOTE]Originally posted by darrancrawford:
Bridge is being held up due to the extremely bad practice of one Mr S. Calatrava. His bridge is in pieces, on blocks in Harland and Wolffs shipyard in Belfast. It is suffering from multiple failures due to very bad detailling by Calatrava’s office, warnings given by H&W ignored, fundamental mistakes in fabrication were made on the insistance of Calatrava. The bridge’s key anchor points are now the subject of an ongoing wrangle with Calatrava, H&W and Dublin Corp. Put it simply, they are unbuidable and until Calatrava starts to listen to the fabrication experts in H&W the bridge will be indefinately delayed. Tellingly Calatrava have sent numerous bridge builders bankrupt all over Europe due to his poor practice. Betcha never read that in the AR[/QUOTE]