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.
A US contractor has been fined US$189,000 following a fall that resulted in multiple injuries to two workers on the Ross Island Bridge project in Portland, Oregon.
Design shortcomings and a lack of appreciation of the risks of taking cores close to a water main are among factors blamed for last year’s partial collapse of a bridge onto a railway line in Leicestershire, England.
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
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.
Researchers from US universities have carried out an analysis into the factors behind bridge collapses.
Demolition has begun of a bridge that burnt down a few days ago on a major highway in the US state of Georgia.
Hearings postponed again due to 'technical challenges'
The primary factor which caused the fracture of a truss element on the Delaware River Bridge has been identified, as the structure was reopened to traffic
Crews have been working to jack the damaged deck of the Delaware River bridge in the USA back into place.
The South Australia state government has released a report into how girders became dislodged last month on a pedestrian and cycling crossing.
Emergency repair contracts with a total value of more than US$9 million have been ratified to safeguard the Delaware River Turnpike Bridge in the USA.
Engineering firm Aurecon has been brought in by the South Australian government to carry out an independent review after debris fell from an overpass onto the road below.
A major bridge which connects Pennsylvania with New Jersey over the Delaware River will remain closed indefinitely while engineers develop a plan to stabilise the bridge after last week’s discovery of a fracture in a major truss member.
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 USA’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing penalties of more than US$150,000 over a fatal accident in April at the I-90 bridge construction project in Des Plaines, Illinois.
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.
