High Arch Bridges Make Denmark Ready for Fehmarn Connection
The landscape on the Danish islands of Lolland-Falster is very flat, so the high arcs of the new bridges are even more eye catching than elsewhere. The reason for the high arcs on the new rail bridges here is to make sure that high wire can be placed underneath. An important part of the whole Fehmarn Link process is to electrify and increase the train speed to 200 km/h on the stretch between Ringsted and Rødby. It is not yet decided when the tunnel under the Baltic Sea will open, but on Da...
Greenspot Road Bridge in Highland, California Wins 2016 Project of the Year Award from American Public Works Association
T.Y. Lin International (TYLI), a globally recognized full-service infrastructure consulting firm, announces that the Greenspot Road Bridge, formally named the Jennifer Lynne Brookes Memorial Bridge, in Highland, California, has won the 2016 American Public Works Association (APWA) Project of the Year Award in the Small Cities/Rural Communities: Transportation category. TYLI served as Lead Designer of the bridge and Prime Consultant to the City of Highland for the project approval and environment...
Sisters Creek Bridge Opens to Traffic; Team Completes Significant Milestone in Delivery of Replacement Project for FDOT
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville-area Sisters Creek Bridge replacement, owned by Florida Department of Transportation District 2, opened to traffic today, an important milestone in the life of this bridge. The $44.2 million project, begun in May 2014, replaces a 1950s era drawbridge with a modern, 65-foot fixed-level span. The project was built by Archer Western and designed by RS&H Engineering. HNTB served as the state’s project oversight representative, providing construction, enginee...
Volunteers from Arup and Bechtel Build Footbridge in Rwanda
A team of volunteers from Arup and Bechtel are spending two weeks of their summer building a pedestrian bridge in Rwanda. The new span will provide safe, year-round access to schools, markets, and health care facilities for the 12,000 residents of Kukibuye. In the last year, two people were killed and seven were injured while walking across the logs that currently cross the Mukungwa River near the northwestern Rwandan village. The team of ten engineers drawn from Arup and Bechtel have part...
New Superstructure at Central Avenue Bridge Slides into Place
Toronto, ON — A new superstructure will be laterally slid into its permanent place today at the Central Avenue Bridge in Fort Erie, Ontario. The Regional Municipality of Niagara has partnered with Hatch to replace the 63 year old bridge and extend the structure’s life as a local transportation corridor. “This is an exciting project milestone and impressive engineering achievement,” said Biljana Rajlic, Hatch’s Practice Lead for Highways & Bridges. “Our goal has been to reduce the impact of co...
Better in 3D: How 3D Modeling Helped Overcome Complexity in Building the Longest Cable-stayed Bridge in Africa
When Morocco’s highway company, Autoroutes Du Maroc (ADM), undertook a highway bypass project in 2010 that would cross the Bouregreg River, they could have built a traditional viaduct. Instead, they set out to construct Africa’s longest and tallest cable-stayed bridge. The resulting project presented unique and complex challenges that called for innovative solutions. The Bouregreg River runs from the Atlas Mountains to the Atlantic coast between the cities of Rabat and Salé in western Morocco....
Bridging the Gap Between Inspections and Decisions
Bridge safety hasn’t always been top of mind for legislators in the United States. The impetus for creating standards and collecting information on how structurally sound the bridges in this country was the collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967, which spanned the Ohio River between Point Pleasant, WV, and Kanauga, Ohio. The tragedy claimed the lives of 46 people and caused the federal government to quickly mandate regular bridge inspections through the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS)...
Self-Propelled Bridges: Offsite Superstructure Construction Reduces Interruption
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) is in the midst of a major project to rebuild the I-94 North-South freeway, one of the state’s most frequently used roadways. The freeway is being widened to eight lanes from the Wisconsin/Illinois border to Milwaukee, with new bridges and interchanges along the full 35-mile stretch. In addition to this freeway work, frontage roads and main arteries are being reconstructed and moved. In total, 17 interchanges are being completely redesigned,...
Overcoming Challenging Suspension Bridge Design and Engineering
Long-span suspension bridges represent some of the most remarkable, yet most vulnerable, assets in road networks. Due to their important role in the transportation network, the design, construction, and subsequent monitoring and maintenance must be performed very accurately. During the design process, bridge designers must consider and meet many challenges, including the highly non-linear behaviour of the structure, the optimization of the geometry of suspension cables, and the effects of wind....
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
