Traveling the world in search of cool bridges to write about...this time to Antarctica. At 64.85 degrees south latitude, this is the farthest south I have ever been!
Unlike the risk posed by earthquakes, risk to bridges from scour is a universal danger – any bridge over a waterway could be subjected to scour at any time.
We need to rethink transportation and reassess its value to our society. Before we start building new stuff or trying to save the fish through transportation, we need to fix what we have. We have billions of dollars of high value...
Traveling the world in search of cool bridges to write about...this time to Utqiagvik, Alaska. At 71.38 degrees north latitude, this truly is the Top of the World Bridge.
Demolition may look messy and disorganized, but it isn't all carnage and chaos. Find out what happens to a bridge at the end of its life.
Talk dirty to me...engineering edition. The necessary, the naughty and the absurd in professional terminology.
Some of our greatest achievements in bridge engineering occur as a result of disasters like the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Traveling the world in search of cool bridges to write about. At 650 feet, the Admiral Clarey Bridge holds the record for the longest floating drawspan in the world.
With bridges, the civil engineer is king. But what does a bridge architect do?
As a bridge engineer, I've never experienced working with an architect. And I asked myself, what do architects do?
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