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Civil Engineer Brian Brenner shares quirky views of the engineering profession and life.

Adventures with Izzy

Playing With Blocks Provides Lessons On Resilient Design

A structural engineer compares ideas with his one-year-old grandson

Brian Brenner

December 8, 2018

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Working on resilient designs with my one year old grandson.

A visit to the beautiful, haunted bridge in Quebec City

Bridge Bucket List: Quebec Bridge

Brian Brenner

November 12, 2018

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The beautiful old cantilever truss bridge spans the St. Lawrence River and adversity.

Structural Engineering and The Human Spirit

The Bridge as Metaphor For Crossing From Life To...What Comes After

We can learn from poems, Disney and Zoroastrian legends

Brian Brenner

October 25, 2018

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The most poignant bridge metaphor is of providing a crossing to the hereafter.

Song and dance and lots of traffic.

Highways in La La Land

Brian Brenner

October 23, 2018

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In a filmed version of LA, everyone sings and dances, and traffic jams are an opportunity for the big opening number.

A High-Calorie Fund-Raiser in Boston

A Comparison of Cakes and Bridges

Brian Brenner

October 2, 2018

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Bridges and cakes are sweet.

Strange Doings on Memorial Bridge

Unusual Sights on Springfield's Iconic Arch Bridge

Brian Brenner

September 4, 2018

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Springfield's beautiful old arch bridge is tough, having survived tornadoes and prancing beasts.

Transportation Musings

Mamma Mia! How a Movie of ABBA Songs Could Have Used a Real Bridge

Brian Brenner

August 21, 2018

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Greek mythology, song and dance and a show-stopper bridge on the Gulf of Corinth.

The Junction of State Route 27 and US Route 1

Brian Brenner

August 20, 2018

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An intersection in the suburbs south of Boston.

Trains to the Klondike Gold Rush

Infrastructure Inspiration for Dudley Do-Right of the Canadian Mounties

A startling railroad viaduct, a steel cantilever that would impress Moose and Squirrel

Brian Brenner

July 16, 2018

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Thoughts on a late-nineteenth-century railroad viaduct for the Klondike Gold Rush.

A Historic UFO Sighting, A Covered Bridge and an Earthly Dispute

Commemorating an encounter with unidentified flying object

Brian Brenner

June 26, 2018

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A 1969 UFO event meets up with a 2018 debate about public land.

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