Philadelphia’s U.S. Route 13/Frankford Avenue Bridge, the nation’s oldest active vehicular structure, is set to undergo rehabilitation work that will keep it in service for several decades.
Permanent floating bridges are essentially boutique structures that only make sense for certain rare kinds of sites: unusually deep bodies of water and/or bodies of water with very soft bottoms, where piers are impractical.
Three years after its much-publicized launch, Pennsylvania’s ambitious Rapid Bridge Replacement Program is well short of its goal to replace 558 structurally deficient bridges.
Caltrans has halted work on a $25-million I-5 bridge-replacement project, north of Redding, as it looks for the cause of a 1.5-in. lateral movement of the unfinished structure’s 400-ft-long arch.
The search for answers continues in the Jan. 15 collapse of a 1,500-ft-long cable-stayed bridge in a mountainous region of central Colombia, killing 10 construction workers and injuring several others.
Aimed at improving safety along Chicago's popular Lakefront Trail bordering Lake Michigan, a new flyover structure will miss its scheduled 2018 completion date by at least a year, likely boosting the project's original $60-million cost.
Major delays in a pair of multibillion-dollar bridge proposals have handed Canada’s Trudeau government a setback as it pushes to get marquee infrastructure projects moving to boost the economy.