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13 Articles in 2009

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Taking flight

A new bridge with unsymmetrical arches and a curved deck has just opened in Guangxi in China. Futang Wei, Rijin Huang and Xiaoqun (...)

Going green

It is time for the bridge industry to start working towards a 'green' standard by which to design and build bridges. Scott Snelling suggests how (...)

Hanging out to dry

Progressive corrosion in the suspender cables of Panama's 50-year-old Bridge of the Americas led to their replacement earlier this year. (...)

Second site

A new bridge is being built between Yeosu and Dolsan Island in South Korea to provide extra capacity during the 2012 Expo. Kyoung-Jae (...)

Quality time

New corporate sponsorship is enabling the volunteer-based charity Bridges to Prosperity to expand its programme of building bridges in remote places (...)

Leap of faith

A style of footbridge first developed for use in the Himalayan region has now been adapted for a project (...)

Valley vision

Building a bridge across a remote and unpopulated valley in Shanxi province proved a challenge for contractors, report Sanhong Zhang, Zhengrong Li (...)

Slender substitute

The dramatic towers of a new cable-stayed bridge in Brittany are taking (...)

Centre of attention

A host of new bridges being designed and built will add to the portfolio of China's bridge city, reports (...)

New features developed for upcoming software release

A graphical workflow concept streamlines the finite element analysis-based bridge design process of Sofistik (...)

In the public eye

Site webcams can offer much more fundamental benefits than just producing a time-lapse film upon completion, reports (...)

Saigon sight

Construction of a new cable-stayed bridge in Vietnam is set for completion in October this year. Iain Hubert reports on progress (...)

A wing and a prayer

The danger that cable-stayed bridges can pose to the bird population has been very much in the news of late, most notably in its impact on plans (...)

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