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 ...

Contractor Kraemer North American broke ground in October 2023 on a steel through truss bridge that will cross the Mississippi River. It’s the rare bridge construction project that doesn’t have ...

In their competing accounts of what went wrong before last year’s Florida pedestrian bridge collapse, both the contractor and designer agree on one point: The concrete was never “roughened” at ...

The Francis Scott Key Bridge stood little chance: When the loaded container ship Dali destroyed one of the bridge's main support columns, the entire structure was doomed to fail. "Any bridge would ...

Seconds before the container ship Dali hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last week and tore it down, killing six construction workers, it sailed past a structure designed to prevent that ...

In 1887, a single-span Pratt truss bridge over the Manitowoc River on Green Bay Road, south of the village of Manitowoc Rapids, was built by the Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co. of Milwaukee. The firm, ...

When the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse took place on Tuesday, March 26, a cargo ship apparently lost control on the Patapsco River in Maryland and struck a support pillar, in what may turn out to be ...

A cargo ship hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Florida's Tampa Bay in 1980, collapsing one span and killing 35 people. AP Photo/Jackie Green This is not the first time a ship has taken out a bridge.

WESTERN Ky. (KFVS) - Crews have removed two of the four jacking towers at the U.S. 60 Cumberland Bridge at Smithland. The flotilla that transported and placed a 700 ft. truss on the bridge at ...

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday morning has sparked debate on whether certain protective systems could have prevented the disaster. The Dali, a nearly ...

A new analysis could help architects and builders reduce the carbon footprint of truss structures, the crisscrossing struts that bolster bridges, towers, and buildings. Buildings are a big contributor ...

The Norwegian composite industry has once again made a significant international impact with the installation of the Paradis Bridge in Bergen—an impressive 42-metre-long truss bridge made from ...