PennDOT picks HDR-Swank Construction team for rebuild of fallen bridge.

Department plans a sole-source, design-build approach for the project to replace the collapsed bridge.

Span had received poor superstructure ratings for more than a decade before Jan. 28 accident, according to National Bridge Inventory data.

New span in Genoa was inaugurated Aug. 3, almost two years after fall of the city’s Polcevera viaduct that killed 43.

About 20 months after the 1.1-km-long Polcevera viaduct in Genoa, Italy, collapsed and caused 43 deaths, the last span of its replacement went up the week of April 27. 

An overweight vehicle is thought to have caused the collapse early on Nov. 18 of a roughly 150-meter-long steelwork suspension bridge in Mirepoix-sur-Tarn, a French village 30 km northeast of Toulouse.