A joint venture between Tutor Perini and O&G has won a $1.3bn contract to build a moveable, 1,500ft-long replacement for the Connecticut River Bridge. Located between Old Saybrook and Old…

Skanska has won a $50m recovery and salvage contract from the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) for the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed on 26 March after being hit by…

The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) has issued a request for proposals for design-and-build teams to reconstruct the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed on 26 March after being hit by…

UK architect WilkinsonEyre has won a competition to design the Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge in Toronto. The anti-funicular steel arch will connect the central waterfront and Quayside neighbourhood with new…

Contractor Bam has started building a bridge over the Newry River in Ireland linking communities to the north and south of the Irish border. Costed at €102m, the 195m-long, cable-stayed…

New York City Parks and the NYC Department of Design and Construction broke ground yesterday on a $41m project to renovate Tide Gate Bridge in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in…

The US Department of Transportation has approved an environmental review of a proposed $3.6bn bridge linking Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky over the Ohio River, meaning the scheme can now…

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has said it will provide $75m in finance towards the cost of building a 920m-long bridge in Tajikistan. The bridge carries the M41 international…

Thailand’s transport minister has been in Beijing promoting plans for a $27bn land bridge to investors, The Nation newspaper reports. The idea is to build a pair of deepwater ports…

Swedish contractor Skanska has signed a contract with the transport department of Washington State to replace the Portage Bay Bridge in Seattle. The $1.4bn design-and-build project will involve the erection…

Lunda Construction, a subsidiary of American contractor Tutor Perini, has entered the lowest bid for a bridge replacement and highway improvement project on the border between Illinois and Indiana. The…

After the Morandi Bridge collapsed in Genoa in 2018, the French government ordered an unprecedented survey of France’s bridges, led by the public resilience agency, Cerema. It was a daunting…

Rhode Island state governor Dan McKee will launch an investigation after an independent report recommended that a vital bridge in the state be demolished and rebuilt. He said he was…

The Dutch public works directorate and the ministry of infrastructure and water management have selected a trio of engineers – Arup, Iv and Wagemaker – to assess the structural integrity…

The board of directors of Stretto di Messina, the company formed to develop a suspension bridge between Sicily and the Italian mainland, has approved a design for the span, and…

Dutch heavy lift specialist Mammoet has published details of its project to replace the Küstrin rail bridge over the River Oder on the German-Polish border. The project team decided to…

A $2.1bn public-private agreement to replace the Calcasieu River Bridge in Louisiana, built in 1952, has reached commercial close. Technically structurally deficient, the bridge is a bottleneck on the Interstate…

Engineers have begun test-drilling for the Salvador-Itaparica road bridge in Bahia state, Brazil. It comes five years after parties agreed a public-private partnership deal for the bridge, set to be…