Florida agencies are embracing a trapezoidal, curved precast-concrete girder design, used in Colorado more than a decade ago, and Pennsylvania recently has adopted standards for its use. A ...

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is one of the largest state departments of transportation in the nation, managing more than 50,000 miles of California’s highways, or about ...

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Engineering researchers at The University of Alabama are testing massive concrete girders in a campus laboratory to find ways for bridges to span longer distances with fewer supports underneath.

As part of the Lincoln County Bridge Replacement Program, Oldcastle Precast of Spokane, Wash., fabricated 136.8-ft.-long prestressed concrete super girders for the new Miles Creston Bridge in Lincoln ...

Earn Your Structural Engineering Certificate in Bridge Design from One of the Nation's Most Respected Engineering Schools. Bridge structure design is a subset of civil engineering. Bridge structure ...

The first sections of steel and road deck have been installed on the new Tappan Zee Bridge's main span towers. The first of the 40-foot-long girders was installed over the four, 650-ton crossbeams, ...

Construction crews repairing the southbound lanes of the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge started pouring the base of its new concrete deck this weekend, a big step toward fully reopening the bridge on ...

BIG SUR – After Caltrans installed nine pre-cast concrete girders at the Rocky Creek slip-out repair site on Highway 1 during a 24-hour period over the weekend, the roadway has been reopened and ...