Acrow Bridge Installed to Improve Access to Mine Development Project Site in Santa Cruz County, Arizona
High-quality, durable steel structure was engineered to accommodate heavy vehicles (Parsippany, New Jersey) – Acrow, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, noted today one of its modular steel bridges has been installed to access a mining site under development in the Patagonia Mountains in southern Arizona’s Santa Cruz County. The bridge was needed to facilitate access to the site and is also helping to keep local traffic flowing smoothly. South32’s Hermosa pr...
Acrow Bridge Supports Rapid Restoration of Key Pennsylvania Route
Modular steel solution installed after floodwaters damage Somerset County bridge (Parsippany, New Jersey) – Acrow, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, is pleased to note that it has designed and supplied a modular steel detour bridge to temporarily replace a flood-damaged structure in Boynton, Pennsylvania. Acrow’s rapidly installed solution enabled the route to reopen less than two weeks after the extreme rainfall event on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. As the floo...
Podcast with TYLin Bridge Engineer Atiq Alvi
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Atiq Alvi, vice president, National Lead for Bridge Rehabilitation, Florida Bridge Sector manager at TYLin, a part of Sidara’s global collaborative. They had a wide ranging and detailed discussion of bridge engineering, including the fragile state of U.S. bridges, how engineers can help improve the situation, and some of the latest and most-useful bridge technology as well as how Alvi has used them throughout his extens...
President Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Announces Availability of $5.4 Billion in Bridge Funding to Get America Building Again
Updated grant program will focus on building critical infrastructure projects that move people safely while eliminating Biden-era requirements WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced nearly $4.9 billion in available funding for major bridge projects through the Bridge Investment Program, and up to $500 million for repairing or replacing bridges in rural areas through the Competitive Highway Bridge Program. The funding...
COWI engineers safety system for Coronado Bay Bridge
San Diego, CA – 13 May 2025 – COWI in North America has been selected as the lead designer for the suicide deterrent fence on the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge, as part of a landmark initiative delivered through Caltrans’ first-ever Progressive Design-Build (PDB) contract. The bridge, a vital connector and architectural icon, is the second most utilized structure for suicides in the U.S., following the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The project’s objective is to rapidly reduce suicides...
COWI Advances Key Milestones for I-376 Commercial Street Bridge
Pittsburgh, PA – April 23 2025 – COWI, a leading international engineering consulting group, is proud to announce key progress as the construction engineer for the I-376 Commercial Street Bridge Replacement project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the installation of steel piles for the temporary sliding towers set to begin soon. The $95 million project, located between the Edgewood/Swissvale interchange and the Squirrel Hill Tunnel, will replace the aging Commercial Street Bridge with a mod...
Haarbachtal Bridge Successfully Launched Using Combined Techniques at Great Heights
Innovative solutions reduce construction time for Haarbachtal bridge The complex installation was achieved by skidding the bridge across elevated jacking towers Mammoet are specialists in Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC), possessing the engineering knowledge and equipment to allow bridges to be built closer to installation sites and assembled in larger, and therefore fewer, pieces – saving considerable time and cost. The Haarbachtal bridge crosses the Haarbach valley on the A5...
Major U.S. Bridges at High Risk of Collisions with Ships
Francis Scott Key Bridge, April 10, 2024. Credit: Baltimore County Government New analysis finds some bridges likely to sustain catastrophic hits in decades Ships are highly likely to collide with major bridges across the United States, with potentially catastrophic collisions happening every few years, according to preliminary findings of an urgent assessment of the nation’s bridge vulnerability following the 2024 Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. Though ship strikes should be ext...
Acrow Provides Permanent Replacement for Collapsed Bridge in Northwest New Mexico
Cost-effective modular steel solution reconnects small rural community after bridge collapse (Parsippany, New Jersey) – Acrow, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, is pleased to note one of its modular steel bridges was recently installed in rural Cibola County, New Mexico, to replace a structure that was destroyed during heavy rains. Because the bridge provides the only reliable access to a small community, re-establishing a safe route for residents, public sch...
NTSB Recommends 68 Bridges in US be Evaluated for Risk of Collapse from Vessel Strike
The containership Dali with portions of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge across its forward deck on March 28, 2024. (Source: NTSB) Safety issues identified as part of Francis Scott Key Bridge investigation WASHINGTON (March 20, 2025) — The National Transportation Safety Board recommended Thursday that 30 owners of 68 bridges across 19 states conduct a vulnerability assessment to determine the risk of bridge collapse from a vessel collision, part of the ongoing investigatio...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
