Johnson balance a weighted bucket on their toothpick bridge at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Toothpick Bridge Challenge in the Civil Engineering Building on the University of ...

WSDOT says the survey details the following aspects: Weigh in on truss and girder-style bridge designs. Share important locations in the vicinity of the bridge. Use an interactive map to provide ...

In the early planning stages of demolition in 2018, Wappel said that IDOT and contractors had discussions about explosions, saying that the dismantling of a truss bridge would require the need to ...

For 47 years, the Francis Scott Key Bridge stood as the gateway to the Port of Baltimore and a landmark as one of the longest steel truss bridges in the world. The Dali, a cargo ship bound for Sri ...

The last time construction began on the Key Bridge was in 1972. The original steel truss design spanned 1,209 feet across the Patapsco River and formed the final link in the Baltimore Beltway.

Ms. Truss, Britain’s prime minister for 44 days, was forced out after her radical policies caused a market meltdown. But there are some key differences with President Trump. By Mark Landler ...

Last month, Maryland’s governor unveiled a digital rendering of the new bridge, which promises to modernize Baltimore’s skyline, trading the old truss design with an updated cable system.

They built bridges using toothpicks and glue. The projects were judged on aesthetics, and then, faced the pressure test. “We had a couple of restrictions, like the carpenter glue or Elmer’s ...

Also, the foundation depth will be about three times deeper, making it more stable.While massive cargo ships don’t go under the bridge, large barges and boats do. The new advanced designs will ...

Though ship strikes should be extremely rare—and bridge design standards stipulate that the annual chances of a bridge collapse from ship collision should be less than 1 in 10,000—some of the nation's ...

Grand Designs viewers branded last night's property "the worst in the show's history". Architect Howard and interior designer Sarah joined host Kevin McCloud to renovate a metallic floating home ...

The Sunshine Skyway’s collapse was a wake-up call, Shields said, prompting new federal standards issued in 1994 requiring bridge designs to have no more than a 1-in-10,000 probability of ...