Woolpert, ODNR Win Award for ‘Indiana Jones’ Bridge in Hocking Hills State Park
MASON, Ohio — Woolpert and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) were honored Thursday night in Mason with the 2018 Outstanding Special Purpose Bridge Award from the Association for Bridge Construction and Design (ABCD) for the Hemlock Pedestrian Bridge. The suspension bridge, located in Hocking Hills State Park about 60 miles southeast of Columbus, was modeled after a bridge featured in the movie “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” Unlike the bridge in the movie, which was hund...
Temporary Acrow Bridge Eases Construction Inconvenience During Delta Airlines Terminal Renovation at New York’s LaGuardia Airport
Parsippany, New Jersey – Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, has announced one of its modular steel bridges was provided to Delta Airlines and recently installed to allow uninterrupted vehicular passage during renovations to terminals C and D at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The temporary structure was critical to the success of the project, which called for demolishing and reconfiguring all approach roadways. The project involved several particular ch...
Michigan DOT I-94 Bridge Team Honored with Award
The I-94 Modernization Advanced Bridges Project Team within the Michigan Department of Transportation recently received the 2018 MDOT-ACEC Partnership Charter Award that recognizes project managers and firms in Michigan for project partnerships based on trust, effective communication, continuous improvement, innovation and timely issue resolution. The award program, now in its sixth year, is sponsored by the Michigan DOT and the American Council of Engineering Companies. Photo via Wikimedia...
Acrow Modular Bridge Maintains Passage of Residential and Commercial Traffic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
(Parsippany, New Jersey) – Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, today announced one of its bridges was recently re-installed as a critical detour structure during construction on Route Soleil 9 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Until its recent move, the same bridge had served for two years as a temporary crossing several hundred meters away on the same roadway as construction plans for a permanent concrete bridge were finalized. Route Soleil 9 is a vital trans...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $705.7 Million in Emergency Relief for Road and Bridge Repairs
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced more than $705.7 million in Emergency Relief (ER) funds to help 34 states, as well as American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, make repairs to roads and bridges damaged by storms, floods, and other unexpected events. “The Department is pleased to reimburse states and territories that have made critical repairs to their transportation infrastructure following natu...
Missouri S&T Poised to Help Address State’s Bridge Repair Needs
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s plan to release bond funds to support bridge repair across the state comes as welcome news to researchers at Missouri S&T, home to a federal initiative to develop new robotic tools to inspect and preserve bridges and other infrastructure. Missouri S&T researchers are in the midst of a five-year effort to develop new technologies to inspect and maintain bridges and portions of highway. The U.S. Department of Transportation grant provides $1.4 million a year to fund...
Performance of Bridges That Received Funding Under the Innovative Bridge Research and Construction Program
TRB Special Report 330: Performance of Bridges That Received Funding Under the Innovative Bridge Research and Construction Program, examines the results of a federal program to promote innovation in highway bridge construction. The Innovative Bridge Research and Construction (IBRC) program, created by act of Congress, provided state departments of transportation with a total of $128.7 million in grants as incentives for use of innovative materials and technology to construct or repair approximat...
Innovative Median Barrier System Adds to Lifespan of Historic Pulaski Skyway
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio - With the opening of bi-directional traffic on June 30, 2018, the Pulaski Skyway was finally ready for another 75+ years of busy use. The Skyway carries US Routes 1&9 between Newark and Jersey City, NJ, and is a connection for the Holland Tunnel to Lower Manhattan. The 3.5-mile corridor was virtually re-built from the inside-out using state-of-the-art engineering and materials, while striving to maintain its place on the National Register of Historic Places. One life-extending...
Acrow Supplies Permanent Bridge to Replace Structure Destroyed in Tubbs Fire in California
(Parsippany, New Jersey) – Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, has announced one of its modular steel bridges was installed recently to restore passage on privately owned land in Santa Rosa, California after the destruction of a timber bridge during the Tubbs Fire. The second most destructive wildfire in California history, the Tubbs Fire was part of the “Northern California Firestorm,” a series of more than a dozen major fires that burned simultaneo...
RIDOT Taps ‘Bridge-in-a-Backpack’ System for Replacement Project
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation said it wrapped up its $3.6 million Railroad Avenue Bridge replacement project seven-months ahead of schedule due to the use of a “Bridge-In-A-Backpack” system developed at the University of Maine and commercially offered by Advanced Infrastructure Technologies. [Above photo by the University of Maine.] The agency said the system uses corrosion-resistant fiber reinforced polymer or FRP tubes in place of conventional steel rebar embedded in a co...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
