New York State Bridge Authority Executive Director Minosca Alcantara, a civil engineer, calls the bridge elegant. Not everyone was a fan. A 1923 New York Times editorial said it would be an ...

TALLAHASSEE — Six years after the deadly collapse of a Florida International University pedestrian bridge, Tallahassee-based companies affiliated with a bridge-engineering firm are fighting a proposal ...

Engineers still study the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which fell into Puget Sound 83 years ago this month. The project to build the original span during the 1930s was $6.4 million. “It was ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A significant piece of Cleveland’s vast bridge history is coming down - but not as soon as expected. The ...

As Michigan Tech senior Connor Tokie prepares for finals and graduation, he's also hosting and competing in the Eastern Great Lakes Regional Student Steel Bridge Competition. April is a busy month for ...

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster serves as a powerful lesson in engineering and aerodynamics. The collapse on November 7, 1940, stands as one of the most dramatic and instructive engineering ...

The Mackinac Bridge—still one of the world’s most inspiring structures— was a risky proposition from the beginning. It struggled to pay its debts in its youth and adolescence, and though it has ...

China's booming economic growth and the associated explosive growth of its cities have led to infrastructure projects that have rewritten the record books. Half of the world's longest bridges are ...

When the two-lane Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940, it was hailed as a “triumph of structural engineering.” Locals quickly gave it another name—Galloping Gertie—after noticing how the ...

Charles Whiting Baker, chief editor of Engineering News, was vacationing in Vermont in August 1907 when word reached him that the Quebec Bridge, under construction near Quebec City across the border ...

Little compares to the special sense of awe derived from seeing the world from above, and the tallest bridges in the world are certainly some of the best places to experience that sensation. But where ...