Fabrication is now complete of new diagonal bracing for the USA’s Sunshine Bridge, which was badly damaged when it was hit by a barge in October 2018.
The bridge’s concrete piers and steel structure had been repaired last year after an earlier collapse in 2016 due to flooding.
The incident on La Pala Bridge occurred less than 2km away from the site of the Chirajara Bridge collapse that killed nine workers in January this year.
Repairs are set to get under way shortly to replace a main load-carrying member that was damaged last month when a crane hit the Sunshine Bridge in the US state of Louisiana.
New Zealand’s workplace safety authority is enforcing measures to ensure that lessons learnt from an accident on a bridge site are shared widely by the company held responsible.
The protracted inquiry into the fatal collapse of the Grayston Drive bridge in Johannesburg is resuming.
A US company has been charged with 'wilfully committing' a safety violation that resulted in an employee’s death on a bridge refurbishment site.
Fatalities have been reported from the collapse of a bridge that was installed only a few days ago at Florida International University
Colombia’s civil defence authority and relief agencies are carrying out search and rescue operations to find any people still missing after the collapse of a major bridge under construction.
Prague seeks provisional crossing to replace unusual footbridge that collapsed unexpectedly, injuring four people, two seriously.
The findings have been published of an investigation carried out into last month’s collapse of the Geldenhuys Pedestrian Bridge.
Several people narrowly escaped death when a pedestrian bridge fell onto a South African highway yesterday.
A section of a viaduct being built in Singapore has collapsed, killing one worker and injuring 10 others.
An independent team has completed its investigation into a recent fatal accident in which workers on a bridge project in Hong Kong fell into the sea.
Australian contractor John Holland Pty Ltd has been fined more than US$200,000 following an accident in which a worker narrowly avoided being crushed.
With no standards for fire protection of bridges in existence, how can engineers and transport authorities confidently address the potential risk of events such as the recent bridge fire in Atlanta? Jose Maria Sanchez de Muniain reports on efforts to address this
Hearings postponed again due to 'technical challenges'
Deferral of a scheme to provide scour protection, lapses in monitoring and a loss of corporate knowledge are among shortcomings identified by an investigation into last year's structural failure of the Lamington Viaduct in Scotland.
The Ontario government in Canada has issued a statement setting out three key causes for the failure in January of a tie-down connection on the new Nipigon River Bridge.
Temporary repairs are being carried out after fire damaged a 9m section of a compression chord in the deck truss of Liberty Bridge in the US city of Pittsburgh.
