How the hell can you build a bridge in northern Ontario that buckles when it gets cold? Nipigon bridge engineers based in Spain

Question of the day:

How the hell can you build a bridge in northern Ontario that buckles when it gets cold?

A new bridge, which opened in November in Nipigon, buckled in the cold over the weekend, severing the Trans-Canada Highway, essentially splitting the country in two.

What went wrong? Well, perhaps the province should have handed the engineering to a Canadian company familiar with the temperatures in the North.

While Sandro Perruzza, CEO of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE), cautions it’s early in the investigation, he noted the engineers for the project are based in Spain.

“It’s all speculation at this point,” he said.

“The engineering company that was hired to do this is based out of Spain, so do they have the experience and knowledge to design a bridge in the cold weather we have in Canada that they don’t have in southern Europe?” he said in a phone interview Monday.

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