Articles Tagged with ''Bridge Construction''

A new report says replacing two Cape Cod Canal bridges for an estimated $1 billion would be more cost-effective than rehabilitating them. 

Nearly 14 months after the Morandi viaduct collapsed in Genoa, Italy, killing 43 people, crews placed the first section of a 1,067-meter-long, 19-span steel and concrete replacement structure.

Once considered an "impossible" project, Norway has settled on a design for a 5-kilometer-long floating bridge to cross the 550-meter-deep Bjørna fjord.

On the surface, it seemed like an outrageous defensive move following a painful tragedy. Louis Berger Group has refused requests from the Dept. of Labor to hand over emails with FIGG Bridge Engineers about its peer review of the ill-fated Florida International University pedestrian bridge.

A badly damaged section of the Boulder Turnpike, northwest of Denver, will undergo repairs as part of a contract signed this week by the Colorado Dept. of Transportation and Kraemer North America.

The Gasyogogo bridge opening came the same week that Bridges to Prosperity launched its national partnership to connect 1.1 million Rwandans by building 355 bridges.

Even though flood water has fallen to levels that make some bridges and channel roads passable in the tiny island town of Kaskaskia, Ill., local officials still don't have a good idea of how much damage more than three months of being submerged has done.