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Tag: National Bridge Inventory
Roadbuilding
TRIP: 12% of New Orleans area bridges structurally deficient
A TRIP report states that several bridges in the New Orleans area are structurally deficient. Check out the details of the report here on Equipment World.
November 2, 2018
Roadbuilding
ARTBA: More than 54,000 U.S. bridges structurally deficient, feds’ data show
A new report finds there’s the equivalent of one “structurally deficient”-rated bridge, on average, for every 27 miles of the nation’s major highway network, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). Those 1,800 structurally deficient interstate bridges are crossed 60 million times daily, the association says. But the problem is even bigger, […]
January 30, 2018
Roadbuilding
ARTBA: Number of U.S. structurally deficient bridges drops to 55,710
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) analysis of the 2016 National Bridge Inventory from the Federal Highway Administration shows the number of structurally deficient bridges in the U.S. has dropped to 55,710 from 58,500 shown in the previous report. Even though the figure has dropped, this still represents 1,276 miles of structurally deficient […]
February 16, 2017
Roadbuilding
FHWA creates new National Tunnel Inspection program
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has created a new tunnel inspection program modeled after the decades old bridge inspection program. According to a release from the FHWA, the new National Tunnel Inspection Standards would create requirements such as routine inspections of tunnels on public roads, training and certificate programs for tunnel inspectors […]
July 21, 2015
Roadbuilding
AP analysis deems 7,795 bridges both structurally deficient and fracture critical
A recent Associated Press analysis of 607,380 bridges in the most recent federal National Bridge Inventory has proven 7,795 — 1.2 percent — of those bridges to be both structurally deficient and fracture critical. The report also found that 65,605 of the bridges were classified only as “structurally deficient,” while 20,808 were found to be […]
September 19, 2013
Roadbuilding
Better Bridges
Engineers on ropes doing specialized structural inspections.
May 5, 2012
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