Tag: bridge engineering

Roadbuilding

New composite girder system can build a bridge in 72 hours to last 100 years

The new composite girder systems can build bridges within a 72 hour timespan and are built to last for an entire century. Get more details on Equipment World.

August 2, 2018

Roadbuilding

Underwater bridges might soon become a reality in Norway

In Norway’s western region, the towns of Kristiansand in the south and Trondheim in the north are connected by Highway E39, a 683.5-mile highway that takes 21 hours to traverse because it crosses seven major fjords, as well as several other smaller fjords, channels, and inlets that can only be crossed by ferries or helicopter. So, City Metric reports, Norway is looking at constructing underwater […]

August 10, 2016

Roadbuilding

Speed of construction, longer lives drive new bridge designs

The need for speed in construction is driving much of the bridge design in this country. The burden to accomplish faster bridge construction, however, falls on heavy contractors, who must work tougher schedules and longer workdays while they solve site organization, demolition, and foundation and superstructure erection puzzles not taught in college. The contractors collaborate […]

September 25, 2015

Roadbuilding

Oklahoma DOT hires engineering firm to create earthquake response protocol for bridge inspections

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) has hired an engineering group to create a new plan for examining and responding to bridge inspections in earthquake zones, according to a report by the Tulsa World. For the past year, the state has been using an “earthquake response protocol” developed in part by officials from California. The […]

April 9, 2015

Roadbuilding

The Man Who Slides Bridges

Any story is valuable if it can show us how to do our work better. And especially when that work is big, massively expensive, part of our daily lives and paid for by tax dollars. For example, an old bridge that serves as a temporary route while the new bridge is being built. Better Roads […]

April 8, 2013

Roadbuilding

Road Science

Nanotech era draws closer.

October 4, 2011