Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner has won the design competition for a bridge to cross the 200m-deep Tamina Canyon in the Swiss canton of St Gallen.

Acting US Federal Highway Administrator Jim Ray has announced a 20-year research effort to collect data on bridges nationwide aimed at improving investment decisions. The Rutgers University Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) has been awarded a contract, worth up to US$25.5 million, to carry out the programme through to 2012.

Transit New Zealand chief executive Rick van Barneveld today confirmed that Transit plans to start construction of the new Kopu Bridge by mid-2011.

The record-breaking sea crossing of Hangzou Bay in eastern China opened to traffic today after the final link was placed last year.

Contractors shortlisted for the Twin Sails Bridge in Poole, southern England, have been stood down pending the outcome of negotiations betwen the council and a landowner, JJ Gallagher.

A new ‘living bridge’ over the River Shannon in the Republic of Ireland is designed to allow students at Limerick University to enjoy the natural landscape as they traverse the campus. Keith Brownlie and Conor Lavery report

Despite earlier setbacks, North America’s longest arch bridge is now making progress over the Colorado River

Pedestrians entering Spain's 2008 Exposition will cross a dramatic new bridges which is designed as a building and footbridge combined. Helena Russell reports