National Highways believes the future of bridge maintenance includes the structures being able to monitor and maintain themselves and it is currently on the hunt for “cutting-edge” technology to develop them.
The road infrastructure operator is currently completing research as part of Structures Moonshot to help it employ self-monitoring and self-maintaining…
High Speed 2 (HS2) is to mandate the use of software used by the automotive industry to improve efficiency on infrastructure design and can do a month's design work in an hour, as well as cut carbon.
Project promoter HS2 Ltd said OptiStruct, a tool created in conjunction with technology provider…
After more than 20 years of weight restrictions, a road bridge over a key rail line in Scotland will be demolished and rebuilt resulting in a 12 month closure.
Network Rail has announced that Shields Road, on the south side of Glasgow, will close to traffic for a year from August…
Experts believe scour caused by record river flows is likely to be the primary cause of of a rail bridge collapse in Montana, United States which saw a freight train plunge into the river below.
The train had seven wagons including some transporting hot asphalt and sulphur. It fell in the…
Hull-based firm Spencer Group is creating a bespoke cable inspection system for the new Pattullo Bridge across the Fraser River near Vancouver, Canada.
The new Pattullo Bridge is a $1.4bn (£1.1bn) four-lane cable-stayed road bridge with cycle and pedestrian lanes between Surrey and Westminster in British Columbia. The new bridge is…
Bechtel is to play a key role in the rebuilding of Ukraine's war-damaged infrastructure.
The US engineering specialist signed a memorandum of understanding with the State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine (SARDIU). The news about the deal with Bechtel follows on from Aecom last week revealing a…
An “unusual” concrete viaduct built in 1901 has had a detailed maintenance programme completed by Balfour Beatty involving 240 separate repairs.
The six-arch, 106m high Aurs Burn viaduct in East Renfrewshire, that was once used as a rail bridge but is now a pedestrian and cycle route, needed extensive renovations, which…
Engineers have started assembling High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Thame Valley Viaduct, which is the first major rail viaduct in the UK to have been manufactured off-site.
The Thame Valley Viaduct will be 880m long and carry the high speed rail line across the flood plain of the River Thame, just outside…
Putting female role models in the spotlight is a key part of today’s International Women in Engineering Day, which is now an annual event, and NCE is relaunching an initiative to ensure women remain in that spotlight throughout the year.
NCE is inviting women engineers to put themselves forward to join…
A collapsed bridge on Interstate 95 (I-95) in North Philadelphia in the United States is set to reopen this weekend, less than two weeks after the fire that triggered the incident.
The bridge failure occurred on Sunday 11 June after a large tanker carrying petrol caught fire under the bridge. The…
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