The New Tappan Zee Bridge: Four Years in Two Minutes
Watch as the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge takes shape in this new time lapse video, covering four years of construction in just two minutes and the opening of its first span to traffic last month. The New NY Bridge project is creating a state-of-the-art, twin-span replacement for the 3.1-mile Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River. After more than a decade of discussion and delay, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo pushed the project forward from dysfunction to construction in less than one year. Pro...
HDR Receives Honors for Open-Technology Database Created for Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge
OMAHA, Neb. — buildingSMART International has named HDR the winner in its “Operation and Maintenance Using Open Technology” category for the database HDR created for the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge in New York. Connor Christian, HDR’s director of digital implementation services, accepted the award at the awards ceremony in London, United Kingdom. The 3.1-mile-long twin-span Mario Cuomo Bridge is replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge crossing over the Hudson River, located less than 20 miles nort...
A Digital Twin to Make Amsterdam’s 3D-Printed Steel Bridge Smarter and Safer
Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam-based startup MX3D is 3D printing a 12-meter-long stainless steel pedestrian bridge to be installed crossing one of Amsterdam’s canals in the old city center by late 2018. Today we announce that a consortium of mathematicians, IoT specialists and engineers have teamed up with us to develop a smart sensor network to monitor the bridge’s health in real time. A great example of data centric engineering. The partners joining the MX3D project include: Autode...
National Association Honors Interstate 15 Bridge Project
PHOENIX – A national industry group has honored the Arizona Department of Transportation’s $30 million rehabilitation of an Interstate 15 bridge through the rugged Virgin River Gorge in far northwestern Arizona. The American Public Works Association selected the Virgin Bridge No. 6 improvement, completed last year, as Project of the Year among transportation projects worth between $25 million and $75 million, with ADOT as the managing agency, Pulice-Wadsworth Brothers Joint Venture as primary...
New Lift Span of the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge to be Floated
The float-in of the lift span for the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, which connects Kittery, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire across the Piscataqua River, will take place the morning of Wednesday, October 18th. Beginning on Tuesday morning the navigational channel will be closed to all vessels - from kayaks to tankers - within a 300-yard radius of the bridge. The nearly 3 million pound center lift span will be floated in on barges across the Piscataqua River between 10:00 a.m. and noon and...
Ready To Build: Susquehanna River Bridge
The Ready To Build campaign showcases five critical investments - including the Susquehanna River Rail Bridge - that are vital to the realization of a renewed, modern passenger rail system. Connecting Perryville and Havre de Grace, MD, the century-old Susquehanna River Rail Bridge is the longest moveable bridge on the NEC and major bottleneck. The two-track bridge will be replaced by two new high-level bridges with a total of four tracks, allowing for speeds up to 160 mph and eliminating the nee...
Congratulations to the ASCE Bridges Photo Contest Viewer's Choice Award Winner
ASCE members have chosen a striking winter photo of the 1866 New Portland Wire Bridge in New Portland, Maine, winner of the 2017 Viewer's Choice Award. See Vijay Jeyakrishnan's photo and all of the ASCE Bridges Photo Contest winners on ASCE's Facebook page. You can look ahead to seeing Jeyakrishnan's photo in ASCE's Bridges 2018 calendar, now available for preorder.
Cortec MCI-309 Protects Post-Tension Strands During Construction of New St. Croix River Crossing
The St. Croix Crossing, dedicated August 2nd, 2017, is a significant new structure connecting Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, with St. Joseph, Wisconsin. The new bridge is expected to promote regional economic development and reduce congestion by replacing the historic but aging Stillwater Lift Bridge (destined for pedestrian traffic) with an engineering masterpiece. The new St. Croix Crossing is designed to carry tens of thousands of vehicles in uninhibited travel across the St. Croix National Sce...
Acrow Supplies Permanent Pedestrian Bridge to Ohio’s Kalahari Resorts
(Parsippany, New Jersey) – Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, has announced that it designed and provided a bridge for pedestrian traffic at the Sandusky, Ohio location of Kalahari Resorts, the popular water park resort and meeting chain. With 890 guest rooms and suites, the resort’s hotel is the largest in Ohio. The facility also boasts 215,000 square feet of convention space as well as the second-largest indoor water park in the United States, at 173,0...
Special Post Tensioned Bridge Slabs Produced for Pine Basin Bridge Replacement
SWAN VALLEY, Idaho (AUGUST 2017) – Oldcastle Precast Idaho Falls teamed with Bonneville Power Administration, HK Contractors, and Bryant Greene Concrete to replace the bridge at the entrance to Pine Basin Camp in Swan Valley, Idaho. Condemned in the fall of 2016, this bridge serves as the only access to the popular boys and girls camp and a valuable access to many of the electrical systems running through the canyon serving Victor, Driggs and Swan Valley. As the best way to proceed, the B...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
