Tight Squeeze
The Newark, New Jersey Route 21 Viaduct Replacement is a massive, $250 million highway improvement program being undertaken by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Michael Baker...
Golden Gate Update
A comprehensive seismic retrofit is under way to ensure that San Francisco's 2.74-km-long Golden Gate Bridge will remain in operation even after a maximum credible earthquake...
Software Sizes Up Viaducts Seismic Susceptibility
Rebuilding a Railroad Bridge
The Peck Movable Bridge and Bridgeport Viaduct is a four-track crossing in Connecticut that serves three rail lines. The 1904 bridge had deteriorated, causing a kink that forced trains...
Bangkok Blockbuster
When completed, the 54-kilometer Bang Na-Bang Pli-Bang Pakong Expressway in Bangkok, Thailand, will be the longest elevated expressway in the world. The precast segmental method is being...
Golden Gate Bridge Earthquake (EQ) Response and Damage Assessment
Precast Viaducts to Carry French High-Speed Rail
Rapid Redecking
A contractor replaced nearly 7,000 m� of steel grid roadway deck filled with microsilica concrete on the Canadian crossing of the Thousand Islands bridge system more than one year ahead...
Paradise Crossed
Hawaii's Interstate H-3 project is the winner of the 1998 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award. The highway, built to alleviate commuter congestion and to link...
New York Overhauls Historic Arched Viaduct
Seismic Retrofit of Fourth Street & Riverside Viaducts with Micropiles
Rebuilding History
Deterioration of the second-oldest multiple-arch masonry viaduct in the country�in Canton, Mass.�threatened its ability to continue carrying Amtrak's Northeast Corridor trains,...
Cementing the Future
One of the most devastating effects of the Loma Prieta Earthquake that rocked northern California on Oct. 17, 1989 was the collapse of the elevated Cypress Freeway (Interstate 880) in...
Calendar: Bridges 1998 Calendar
Featured bridges are: C&O R.R./Lafayette Street Underpass Bridge (VA); Clear Creek Bridge (UT); Stoneman Bridge (CA); Marble Fort Bridge (CA); Rocky Mountain Viaduct (VA); Smokemont...
A Bridge Along the Same Lines
Engineers in Tennessee were recently charged with building a new viaduct in an old profile, while at the same time keeping headroom for the trains and keeping off the neighbors'...
Monster Viaduct Planned
NYCT - A Special Infrastructure Evaluation Project
Seismic in St. Louis
Following collapse of sections of the double-deck I-880 Cypress Viaduct in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the Missouri Department of Transportation initiated a seismic evaluation and...
Calendar: Bridges 1997
Featured bridges are: Chouteau Bridge (MO); Torrens Avenue Bridge (IL); Wadell .A. Truss (MO); Michigan Avenue Bridge (IL); Roosevelt Bridge (IL); Benjamin Thrailkill Bridge (SC); Seventh...
Community Involvement Drives Chicago Viaduct Reconstruction
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