_utxx · HackerTrans

5 years agodiscuss

Sure. Guess my actual point was the lead time- it takes years to attract potential students, train them into engineers, give them some experience under the belt. Years to build up an effective workforce to fill this gap. Decade? Perhaps decades to fill this somewhat specialized labor deficit?

_utxx

5 years agodiscuss

Yep, in the ideal world. But:

A- major proportion of civil/structy engineers are going into retirement, their numbers not supplanted by new blood. It's just not a calling anymore.

B- USACE redacts their dam and bridge inspection databases by zeroing out inspection dates. They're obviously managing the external perception of this process, and internally prioritizing best they can.

C- they only have ~32k employees, of which there are only so many pertinent engineers, handling 200k bridges and 90k dams. Overwhelmed is an understatement. Then there's the budget situation.

D- then there's the buildings.

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