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Hurricane Matthew’s rampage through the Caribbean, the Bahamas and up the southeast U.S. coast tested storm and flood forecasters, utilities, contractor preparations and civil engineering works for more than 1,500 miles and, in some cases, found them wanting.

Answering a call from the Federal Highway Administration, a group of steel-bridge advocates have introduced a new type of tub girder that requires less fabrication and installation time.

It took 80-ft-deep, dense soil for “Bertha,” the world’s largest-diameter tunnel-boring machine, to finally hit her stride.

It took longer than expected, but Pittsburgh’s fire-damaged Liberty Bridge finally reopened last month.