The first two thirds of the new concourse of the London Bridge Station are now open to public. Once finalized, the concourse will be the largest in the UK and will be served with more than 80 trains every hour. Â With about 54 million passengers every year,…
Lt. Governor Holcomb Awards $47 Million in Road and Bridge Funds to 102 Central Indiana Communities
CARMEL, Ind. – Lieutenant Governor Eric Holcomb joined INDOT officials today to announce that 102 Central Indiana cities, towns, and counties are receiving…
High Arch Bridges Make Denmark Ready for Fehmarn Connection
The landscape on the Danish islands of Lolland-Falster is very flat, so the high arcs of the new bridges are even more eye catching than elsewhere. The…
Greenspot Road Bridge in Highland, California Wins 2016 Project of the Year Award from American Public Works Association
T.Y. Lin International (TYLI), a globally recognized full-service infrastructure consulting firm, announces that the Greenspot Road Bridge, formally named the Jennifer Lynne Brookes Memorial Bridge, in Highland, California, has won the 2016 American Public…
Sisters Creek Bridge Opens to Traffic; Team Completes Significant Milestone in Delivery of Replacement Project for FDOT
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville-area Sisters Creek Bridge replacement, owned by Florida Department of Transportation District 2, opened to traffic today, an important milestone in the life of this bridge. The $44.2 million project, begun in May 2014,…
Volunteers from Arup and Bechtel Build Footbridge in Rwanda
A team of volunteers from Arup and Bechtel are spending two weeks of their summer building a pedestrian bridge in Rwanda. The new span will provide safe, year-round access to schools, markets, and health care facilities for the 12,000 residents of Kukibuye.…
New Superstructure at Central Avenue Bridge Slides into Place
Toronto, ON — A new superstructure will be laterally slid into its permanent place today at the Central Avenue Bridge in Fort Erie, Ontario. The Regional Municipality of Niagara has partnered with Hatch to replace the 63 year old bridge and extend the structure’s…
Better in 3D: How 3D Modeling Helped Overcome Complexity in Building the Longest Cable-stayed Bridge in Africa
When Morocco’s highway company, Autoroutes Du Maroc (ADM), undertook a highway bypass project in 2010 that would cross the Bouregreg River, they could have built a traditional viaduct. Instead, they set out to construct Africa’s longest and tallest cable-stayed…
Bridging the Gap Between Inspections and Decisions
Bridge safety hasn’t always been top of mind for legislators in the United States. The impetus for creating standards and collecting information on how structurally sound the bridges in this country was the collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967, which spanned…
Self-Propelled Bridges: Offsite Superstructure Construction Reduces Interruption
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) is in the midst of a major project to rebuild the I-94 North-South freeway, one of the state’s most frequently used roadways. The freeway is being widened to eight lanes from the Wisconsin/Illinois border…
