On October 2, after nearly 8 years of construction, the new Gerald Desmond Bridge opened to great, albeit virtual, fanfare in Long Beach, California.
Category - Stories
The engineering, history, and people behind remarkable bridges.
The American Road and Transportation Builders Association estimates that 230,000 bridges need replacement or major rehabilitation – at an estimated cost of $164 billion.
As a follow up to my “Spanning Further with Splice Girders” article from January 2020, I’m highlighting the Rockingham Bridge Project, which I designed.
FRP brings new life to a storied and beloved bridge in Vermont.
The Bergsøysund Bridge is located about 3 hours drive southwest of Trondheim along the E39 highway, near Kristiansund, on the Norwegian coast. The bridge connects the islands of Bergsøya and Aspøya by spanning the...
The idea of a Celtic Crossing, that is a bridge connecting the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, is about as old as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland itself. And like any major infrastructural...
In March of 2018, the TCI Weekly News published an article revealing that the Minister of Infrastructure, Housing and Planning had recently introduced an informational paper on ‘The Turks and Caicos Spine Road Project’ to the...
Norway's proposal for the world's longest floating bridge, part of the E39 Coastal Highway project, is anything but a bridge too far.