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21 Articles in October 2004
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Messina Bridge: prequalified contractors named

Three international consortia have been shortlisted to build the record-breaking Messina (...)

Jindo Bridge's twin completed

South Korea's 1st Jindo Grand Bridge now has a twin 20 years its junior, with the completion of a matching cable-stayed structure (...)

Malta invites bridge upgrade tenders

The Maltese government has launched an international tender for engineering services to determine the work needed at its Manwel Dimech (...)

Renewed Maumee delays hit Bilfinger profits

Bilfinger Berger has issued a statement saying that it has increased to US$64 million its financial provision for the delays and additional costs (...)

Second gantry failure halts Maumee River work

Construction of the Maumee River Crossing was suspended on Saturday when part of a launching gantry collapsed just hours after work had (...)

South African collapse inquiry starts

South Africa's Department of Labour today opens a formal inquiry into last year's fatal collapse of a bridge under (...)

Mott MacDonald wins Hungarian rail contract

Mott MacDonald is leading a consortium that has been appointed to carry out the engineering design for the US$114 million modernisation (...)

Humber lighting plan endorsed

Plans have been agreed for a full scale lighting trial on the Humber (...)

Proposals invited for Canada's Golden Ears Bridge

The Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, Translink, has invited requests for qualification to design, build, finance, operate, maintain (...)

Manhattan Bridge refurb goes to Skanska

Skanska has won a US$148 million contract to rehabilitate New York's Manhattan (...)

Delaware concrete arch starts on site

A groundbreaking ceremony has taken place to mark the start of Indian River Inlet Bridge in Sussex County, (...)

Low bidder named for Hoover Dam bridge

A joint venture of Obayashi and PS Mitsubishi Construction is the apparent low bidder for the Colorado River Bridge, just downstream from the (...)

India's highest steel arch set for 2007 completion

Konkan Railway has awarded bridge and tunnel contracts worth some US$290 million for work on the Katra-Laole section of (...)

First landfall for Shanghai sea bridge

One end of Shanghai's Donghai Bridge was connected to land this week when the central section of the record-breaking sea bridge reached the (...)

Key stage reached on high altitude Tibetan viaduct

The final pier of the 1.95km Nagqu bridge in Tibet has been (...)

Expansion planned for Sydney's Anzac Bridge

The New South Wales Roads & Traffic Authority is considering creating an additional westbound lane on Sydney's Anzac Bridge to improve (...)

Ohio seeks public input into Ironton-Russell design

Ohio Department of Transportation has invited the local community to discuss the design of a US$70 million cable-stayed structure that will (...)

Praise for contractors as hurricane-damaged bridge reopens

Florida's Escambia Bay bridge has been reopened less than three weeks after Hurricane Ivan knocked out 58 spans and damaged dozens more (...)

Balfour Beatty lands six major US civils contracts

Balfour Beatty Construction has won civil engineering contracts in the US worth a total of US$480 million (...)

Bay Bridge bid rejected as California seeks cheaper option

California is rejecting the sole bid for the self-anchored suspension portion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (...)