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Welcome to Bd&e #117, our latest issue with a spotlight on Central & South America and steel bridges. Among the articles for your enjoyment in this edition are:

• High-risk design: a highway bridge in a seismically active region in Chile calls for unusual detailing
• Eventful ride: multiple code conflicts are reconciled for the longest bridge in Bogota’s first metro line
• Bioceanic vision: a plan to link both sides of the South American continent takes a big step forward
• Saddling up in Bolivia: ingenious operations needed to replace stay cables in a remote crossing
• Stability in hybridity: Peru’s plans to address closures through a cable stayed-suspension structure
• Finding form in the Amazon: adaptable four-tower design addresses a highly changeable landscape
• Distance learning: can weathering steel be used in the proposed location? And if it is coastal?
• Phoenix rising: a civil engineer takes lessons from a load-test collapse in Italy and rebuilds his bridge
• Beating new paths: Bridges to Prosperity explores further ways of tackling isolation-related poverty
• A future vision in motion: advanced computer systems can transform structural health monitoring
• Buckle up: new guidance published in USA for use of uncrewed aerial systems in bridge inspections
• Getting back on track: how a key railway bridge reopened in Norway after a partial collapse

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