Articles Tagged with ''bridge collapse''

The Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira Bridge, built in the 1960s, crossed the Tocantins River in northern Brazil.

Contractor T.L. Wallace Construction was replacing the bridge and two others along State Route 149 for the Mississippi Dept. of Transportation.

Infrastructure agency chiefs need new ways to keep coastal and urban structures, critical bridge crossings and even public sector diversity programs hardened against growing climate change and human-caused risks, they told an ENR conference in Manhattan on Sept. 16.

City will investigate the partial collapse of the concrete bridge structure built between 1967 and 1971.

Technical qualifications took precedence over price in progressive design-build award.

Defendants include a contractor now at work to replace a deteriorated section of the 56-year-old Providence span carrying I-195 that has been shut since December

State officials plan to replace the collapsed bridge in Baltimore using the same footprint as the original that was struck by a container vessel in March.

The Maryland Transportation Authority is now evaluating proposals to replace the bridge, which collapsed after it was struck by a cargo vessel in March, with an eye on a possible completion by 2028.

The Maryland Transportation Authority issued a request for proposals May 31 for Phase 1 of the Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement.

The inadequacy of existing safeguards to protect bridges and other infrastructure from ever-larger container ships was considered in a House hearing May 15, a day after the NTSB released its preliminary report on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.