The USA’s Department of Transportation has allocated more than US$500 million to repair roads and bridges damaged by natural disasters.
The Indonesian government has secured grant aid of up to US$23 million for a programme to reconstruct bridges in Central Sulawesi Province.
The US state of Oklahoma is introducing a new system that will help bridge engineers carry out safety checks following an earthquake.
It has taken just six weeks to rebuild a US highway bridge whose destruction by fire has caused widespread traffic disruption in the city of Atlanta.
A pedestrian bridge collapsed onto the M20 motorway in southern England yesterday afternoon.
Mabey Hire has introduced a complete environmental monitoring system that can deliver live sensor data and alerts from the construction site.
Highway Administration’s guidelines for accelerated bridge construction, producing safer bridges of higher quality and longer service lives than can be realised with conventional construction.
