Latest Bridges News

Rochdale Borough Council has appointed a contractor to carry out £4M of improvement works to a 90-year-old river crossing.

The council picked Bury-based BDB Special Projects to repair and strengthen Queen’s Park Bridge. The 136m-long structure was built over the River Roch in the early 1930s but is showing signs of…

Repair works have started on an early 19th century cast iron footbridge in Bristol, promising to end its eight-year closure.

Grade-II listed Kingsweston Iron Bridge, first constructed over 200 years ago, traverses Kingsweston Road, linking Blaise Castle Estate to Kingsweston Fields. It has been closed since 2015 after a truck collided…

Newly released photos show work gathering pace on the 300m-long viaduct that will carry high-speed trains into Birmingham's Curzon Street Station.

The viaduct, which crosses Digbeth Canal, is being built by HS2’s Midlands contractor BBV (Balfour Beatty Vinci) and was designed by BBV’s Design Joint Venture, made up of Mott MacDonald…

BDP has unveiled its proposals for a garden bridge on Manchester’s Grade II-listed Castlefield Viaduct

As reported by NCE sister title Architect's Journal, the practice was commissioned by the National Trust earlier this year to turn the iconic disused railway viaduct into a permanent feature in the city, inspired by New York’s…

Grit blasting is progressing on the corroded Grade II Corporation Road Bridge in Grimsby, but the project is attracting growing controversy due to ongoing delays.

Remediation works on the severely rusted bridge have been delayed, leading to calls for a review of North East Lincolnshire Council’s schedule for major projects. Corporation…

The search has begun for a contractor to work on the design and construction of a bridge linking Brazil and Bolivia.

The Rio Mamoré International Bridge will connect Guajará-Mirim, Brazil, with Guayaramerin, Bolivia. Its estimated cost is R$429.5M (£70.6M). The tender notice, published by the Brazilian Government, states that the successful…

Works to upgrade the 115-year-old Whitby Swing Bridge have been delayed for several months due to a lack of materials.

The local authority this summer announced a £200,000 project to help the pedestrian and road bridge across the River Esk to cope with greater extremes in temperature and improve access. However,…

Wiltshire contractor MJ Church, working on behalf of National Highways, has completed a bridge refurbishment project in the West Country a month ahead of schedule.

The firm's prompt work allowed traffic to return to the M5 crossing near the outskirts of Cheltenham this week rather than in mid-December as initially planned.…

Engineers working on the Colne Valley Viaduct for High Speed 2 (HS2) have now completed 1.7km of its record-breaking 3.4km length.

Once complete, the viaduct will be the longest rail bridge in the UK and carry HS2 trains from Hillingdon on the outskirts of London, over a series of roads and…

President of the United States Joe Biden has announced $16.4bn (£13.5bn) will be spent on 25 improvement schemes for the nation’s busiest rail line, Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor.

The announcement was made just as work for the final part of an underground casing project on the New York side of the Hudson…