A joint venture between Austrian contractors Porr and Strabag has won a €217m contract to replace a 1.8km bridge in the Austrian Alps. The 55-year-old Luegbrücke is part of the…

Work has been completed on a €350m railway bridge over the Drava River between Croatia and Hungary. The double-tracked Drava Bridge replaces a single-track version, and will expand the capacity…

Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has begun an amphibious operation to replace five crucial bridge decks at Amsterdam’s main Centraal train station that have reached the end of their design life. Working…

Two Singaporean companies who owned the ship that rammed into and brought down Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge have agreed to pay just under $102m to settle a claim filed…

Danish international consultant Cowi last week successfully moved a 290-foot-long steel network-tied arch bridge into place for a complex grade separation project in the city of Corona in southwestern California.…

A Skanska-led joint venture with McCourt Construction and Aetna Bridge Company has won a $625m design-build contract from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) to rehabilitate 15 structurally deficient…

The governor of Lagos State in Nigeria has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Civil Engineering (CCECC) for the construction of a bridge over the Lagos Lagoon between the…

American construction company Kiewit has won a $73m contract from the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) to design and build a replacement for the I-695 Francis Scott Key Bridge. This collapsed…

A team made up of Spanish contractors Acciona and Sacyr, along with the Australian infrastructure developer Plenary Group, have won a 50-year contract to design, build, operate and maintain a…

Austrian contractor Strabag is to replace the 900m-long Uttrichshausen viaduct, part of the A7 motorway in the central German state of Hessen. The company has not specified an exact contract…

Aecom will be lead designer for Washington State’s $1.375bn project to replace the 1960s-era Portage Bay Bridge in Seattle. It will work with contractor Skanska, which won the design-build contract…

An $800m project has been announced to replace the 75-year-old I-55 Bridge over the Mississippi between the states of Arkansas and Tennessee. Some $394m will come from the US Department…

A joint venture between Californian contractor Granite and civil engineer Kraemer North America has won a $113m project from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to remove and replace the…

Rescuers have now found the bodies of 15 people who died when a highway bridge collapsed in flash floods in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Xinhua reports. Many are still missing…

The Fengyi Bridge in Shaanxi Province in central China has opened for traffic. UK consultant Arup, which designed and engineered the span, said it’s the widest multi-tower cable-stayed bridge in…

Contractor Besix and civil engineer Matière have reached financial close on a contract to design and build seven bridges in the West African state of Gabon. The deal was signed…

Work has been completed on the 2.5km-long deck of the Gordie Howe cable-stayed bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit. The bridge, which spans the Detroit river, is being built by…

The Simone-Veil Bridge, a 549m-long structure designed by Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has opened to the public. The structure spans the Garonne between the Bordeaux municipalities of…