Bristol’s world-famous bridge is set to undergo a ‘one in a lifetime’ refurbishment to safeguard its historic ironwork.
Work starts next month on a two-year project to upgrade the landmark's 180-year-old suspension chains and install a new lighting system. Engineering firm Taziker has been awarded the contract to paint the Grade…
Investigations have determined over 900 repairs need to be carried out to restore the Grade II listed Tyne Bridge.
The president of ICE, Prof Anusha Shah, and the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (Ceca) Chairperson, Ross Markwell, visited the site to hear from engineers about what works are needed to complete the…
Network Rail has begun two bridge repair projects, one to allow the A159 to reopen in Lincolnshire and the other to conduct urgent repair work to a viaduct’s supporting pillars that have started to erode in Cumbria.
Engineers began emergency work to repair a damaged railway bridge on Saturday, 9 March,…
The final section of the £146M Gull Wing Bridge in Lowestoft has arrived bringing the completion of the 342m single leaf rolling bascule bridge closer to reality.
The new eight span bridge will act as a tactical diversion route for the A12/A47 over Lake Lothing when the Bascule Bridge, which also…
Network Rail engineers have completed a nine-day programme of works to upgrade the UK’s only sliding canal bridge in Keadby, near Scunthorpe.
The work took place around the clock from Saturday 17 February to the early hours of Monday 26 February with more than 100 engineers on site. It involved strengthening…
Refurbishment works to the Corporation Road bridge in Grimsby are progressing but a detailed inspection of the structure’s spans have revealed more repairs are needed.
North East Lincolnshire Council confirmed in October last year the process of grit blasting the bridge to reveal the bare steel under the paintwork revealed “the…
Years of neglect led to the corrosion of the weathering steel legs of Pennsylvania’s Fern Hollow Bridge in the lead up to its collapse, new details from USA’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reveal.
The Fern Hollow Bridge near Pittsburgh, which carried two lanes in each direction on the east-west Forbes…
A road bridge under construction in the Netherlands has collapsed killing two workers and injuring two others.
The bridge was being built to cross over the Twente Canal in the city of Lochem in Gelderland, an eastern province of the Netherlands. It was being built as part of a new ring…
A community interest company (CIC) in Northumberland has leased a section of disused railway to make it an active travel path after the 19th century bridges on the route were prevented from being infilled.
Borderline Greenway CIC has signed a 25-year lease with landowner Northumberland Estates for a 2.9km route that…
Construction of the record-breaking Colne Valley Viaduct for the High Speed 2 (HS2) railway has been halted due to the need for “urgent remedial works”.
In a letter sent to local residents, seen by NCE, Align JV (Bouygues Travaux Publics, McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick), the contractor building the viaduct, announced the delay. It…
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