The city of Minneapolis is seeking a new home for the 89-year-old St. Anthony Parkway bridge. In a public notice, the city is soliciting proposals for the “sale, relocation, rehabilitation and reuse” ...
One notable recent instance where a long-span truss design was considered was the Columbia River Crossing, a joint effort by the states of Oregon and Washington to replace the pair of existing through ...
Of the 756 American bridges that share a design with the collapsed Minnesota span, almost a quarter stand in Ohio. They're not flashy, just roads atop trusses, a mishmash of connected steel sticks ...
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, ...
MINNEAPOLIS — A house of cards is how some engineers describe the steel truss system used on the Interstate 35W bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River, saying that almost any piece of the ...
(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- ZhenJiang Great Wall Heavy Industry Technology Co., Ltd. is one of China's most prominent names in the steel truss bridge manufacturing industry. Located in ...
Rocks Village Bridge recently marked the 10-year anniversary of its six-span Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) vehicle deck. Creative Composites Group’s (CCG) FRP composite deck was installed in 2013 as ...
When the 1,200-foot-long Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in 1977, its enormous steel-truss design was the state of the art for river crossings. But in the decades since, a more modern design that has ...
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 ...
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Four Sonoma County steel truss bridges were inspected by state engineers as a precautionary measure after the collapse of a similar bridge in Minneapolis, and all were found to be safe, officials said ...