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by choonway 1465 days ago
You can still design 99% of the bridges in existence today with commercially available software and hardware from 10 years ago.

Why do you want to make a bridge that barely stands?

Instead you want your engineer to:

1. build it cheaply and quickly,

2. maintenance is cheap and non disruptive.

3. probability of unplanned failure is small, eg once in 100,000 years