After spending more than $130 million in a decade of planning and analysis, the finally has settled on a bridge type. Governors John Kitzhaber and Chris Gregoire on Monday declared that the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Two 13,000-pound trusses, resurrected from the charred ruins of a wooden bridge in New Hampshire, surely must be among the largest research specimens at Case Western Reserve ...

State transportation officials will hold two listening sessions on March 10 regarding their proposed recommendation for a composite truss bridge design. The first will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at ...

Meet the new bridge. Same as the old bridge? Not quite. But on Friday, Oregon and Washington transportation officials recommended a deck truss bridge design for the Columbia River Crossing that is ...

The bistate Columbia River Crossing project has consumed $118 million without turning a single shovel full of dirt. What did we get for all that money? The Columbian requested all information related ...

ROSEVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building bridges is a staple STEM activity and a fun competitive event, but what do students actually learn? The real lessons of STEM are in the ...

Truss bridges have a long pedigree. The first ones were made of wood and erected in various European countries at least as early as the 16th century. Beginning in the late 1700s, many of them were ...

Corrections and clarifications: This story has been corrected to describe the pedestrian bridge as a truss design, despite its cosmetic appearance as a cable-stayed bridge. The central column and ...

The Florida International University pedestrian overpass that collapsed catastrophically during construction last week was advertised as a “cable-stayed” bridge, but it actually wasn’t: Instead, it ...

Today, Black Bridge carries trains over the Codorus Creek as railroad traffic moves between York and Emigsville. This bridge is a prominent feature viewable from the new section of the rail trail, ...

Steel truss bridges have been the backbone of transport networks since the late 19th century. They are built from interconnected steel bars and they can span long distances and carry heavy loads, ...