November 2003

Like many major bridges in the San Francisco Bay area--the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Benicia-Martinez, the Richmond-San Rafael, the San Mateo-Hayward and the Carquinez...

Very few long-span tied-arch bridges have been built recently in the U.S. due to concerns regarding redundancy of the structural system and the fact that cable-stayed systems ...

Achieving safer, longer life steel bridges and other structures is now a reality with the advanced technology of Ultrasonic Impact Treatment (UIT).

The design and construction of the 560-ft bridge taking Fifth Street over I-25 and Plum Creek in Castle Rock, Colo., came up against severe environmental constraints. Plum Creek...

Located on the shores of the St. Clair River, the downtown area of Port Huron, Mich., is divided by the Black River, and three closely spaced bascule bridges link the north and...

Massive concrete U-beams, 145 ft long and 8 ft wide, were recently used for the Goldenrod Road Bridge constructed by the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority as part of ...

With a stroke of a pen on Sept. 29, President Bush extended the federal surface transportation legislation for five months, maintaining funding for federal highway and transit...

A replacement of the Cooper River bridges is currently under construction and when completed will provide a 1,005-m-long cable-stayed main span over the Cooper River between the...

NTEA.com, the National Truck Equipment Association’s (NTEA) website, is a  valuable resource consisting of information specific to your business in the commercial truck and...

A warning to all those driving east (or west) on I-94: It quickly becomes I-93.5.

Since the big rigging investigations of the '70s, the integrity of highway contractors has been an important issue for government officials. In the post-Enron era corporate integrity...

Entering its fourth year of construction, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge project is the third-largest of its kind in the nation. But unlike some megaprojects, this financial house ...