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Work set to start on Boise River crossing

A groundbreaking ceremony is to take place next week to kick off construction for a project that includes a new crossing of the Boise River in Idaho (...)

Replacement span installed for Eggners Ferry Bridge

The new span of the Eggners Ferry Bridge has been floated to site and put in place. The bridge in the US state of Kentucky lost an entire span (...)
Caissons arrive for Forth Replacement Crossing

Caissons arrive for Forth Replacement Crossing

Two of the three massive double-skinned steel caissons for Scotland’s Forth Replacement Crossing have arrived on site this week from (...)
Network Rail to replace four bridges in nine-day period

Network Rail to replace four bridges in nine-day period

Passengers on the Esk Valley line in northern England will be travelling over four new bridges after Network Rail replaces then during the (...)

Japan to collaborate on Philippines bridge study

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is to collaborate with the Philippines Department of Public Works & Highways (DPWH) to come (...)

Agreement signed for 5km Indian rail bridge

Welding Research Institute and Hindustan Construction have signed an agreement for the construction of a 4.94km rail bridge over the (...)
Winning team picked for Gerald Desmond Bridge replacement

Winning team picked for Gerald Desmond Bridge replacement

A joint venture between Shimmick Construction Company, FCC Construccion and Impregilo has been picked as the ‘best value’ proposer (...)
Cable compaction nears completion at Bay Bridge

Cable compaction nears completion at Bay Bridge

Compaction of the cable for the self-anchored suspension span (SAS) of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in California, USA, is (...)

New bridge to kick off US$202m Nebraskan rail investment

The USA's BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) has outlined plans to invest an estimated US$202 million on maintenance and rail capacity improvement (...)

Tenders called to build Hunter River bridge

Plans to build a new bridge over the Hunter River at Aberdeen, Australia, are progressing, with tenders now being called. The federal government (...)

New vice president for Modjeski & Masters

David Petermeier has been promoted to vice president at US bridge engineering firm Modjeski & Masters, where he will help guide strategy for (...)
Dubai to add 13 footbridges

Dubai to add 13 footbridges

Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) is implementing a programme to build 13 footbridges at a cost of US$12 million. The project (...)

Gammon completes River Kosi bridge

Gammon has announced completion certificate of the Kosi Maha Sethu Bridge. The total length of the project stretch is more than 10.6km, including (...)

Contractor picked for St Patrick’s Island Bridge

Graham Construction has been appointed to build a new pedestrian bridge to St. Patrick’s Island in Calgary, Canada. The contractor has (...)

Shortlists announced for US$2.6bn Ohio River projects

The US states of Kentucky and Indiana have announced the finalists that will compete to build the US$2.6 billion Ohio River Bridges project. (...)
Los Angeles bridge design competition set to start

Los Angeles bridge design competition set to start

A international design competition for the replacement of the 6th Street Bridge in Los Angeles, USA, is set to get under way this week. &ldquo (...)

Four bid for third Bosphorus Bridge

Four teams are understood to have submitted tenders to build the third Bosphorus Bridge. Local reports from Turkey say that one of five (...)

Funding resolution approved for St Croix project

The building commission in the US state of Wisconsin has approved a resolution granting the department of transportation authority to finance the (...)

Forth Bridge bolt replacement to be fast-tracked

A total of 28 nuts on the bolt assemblies have now been found to have cracked and the need for replacement is sufficiently urgent that the (...)

US Coast Guard begins hearing on Eggners Ferry Bridge accident

A formal hearing has begun this week into January’s accident in which a cargo ship destroyed a span of the Eggners Ferry Bridge   (...)