The US states of Ohio and Kentucky are moving forward with plans for the construction of a companion to the existing Brent Spence Bridge.
The USA’s National Transportation Safety Board has published a further update on its ongoing investigation of January’s collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The USA’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has blamed two contractors after a worker died while a bridge was being demolished.
The design has been revealed of the new footbridge for a US site where the original planned structure collapsed while under construction in 2018.
The US National Park Service’s Blue Ridge Parkway route is to receive US$127 million for infrastructure work including a bridge replacement.
A groundbreaking ceremony will be held next week for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in California, USA.
The US state of Massachusetts is moving forward with design work for the replacement of Fairhaven-New Bedford Bridge.
The governor of the US state of New York has announced a record US$32.8 billion for transport infrastructure as part of her budget for the next financial year.
The USA’s Department of Transportation has approved a loan of US$200 million towards the US$463 million replacement of an 81-year-old bridge over the Potomac River.
Plans have been agreed for an immediate start on work to replace the bridge that collapsed in January in Pittsburgh, USA.
Newly awarded grants with enable the University of Kansas to carry out a trio of research projects, including one aimed at preventing constraint-induced fractures in steel bridges and another looking at steel with ultra-high toughness.
The governors of the US states of Kentucky and Ohio are to seek up to US$2 billion in federal funding for a project that includes a new companion structure to the Brent Spence Bridge.
Demolition of the original Gerald Desmond Bridge in California, USA, is set to start in May with the dismantling and removal of the 160m-long main span.
The contractor has been chosen for the construction of one of the longest bridges in West Virginia, USA.
A new agreement has secured US$25 million in federal funds towards the US$80 million replacement of an ageing single-leaf bascule bridge in Florida, USA, with a fixed structure.
Construction will begin shortly on the replacement of the LA 1 Intracoastal Bridge in the US state of Louisiana.
The USA’s National Transportation Safety Board has issued preliminary information on the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh.
The latest edition of an annual report into the state of US bridges says that 36% need repair work and that 78,800 should be replaced.
A highway bridge collapsed on Friday in Pittsburgh, USA, just hours before president Joe Biden was due to give a speech on the importance of funding for infrastructure.
The USA’s National Transportation Safety Board has found that poor communication was to blame for an accident that caused more than US$1 million of damage to a railway swing bridge in Louisiana.
