News Mammoet slides rail bridge into place on the River Oder 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…
News $2.1bn deal agreed to replace Louisiana’s Calcasieu River Bridge 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…
News Surveys start for Brazil’s $1.8bn Salvador-Itaparica bridge 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…
News Holcim and Zaha Hadid Architects team up to print circular bridge A pedestrian bridge has been 3D-printed in Lyon by a team that included Swiss cement-maker Holcim, British designer Zaha Hadid Architects, ETH Zürich and Austrian printing specialist Incremental3D. The precursor…
News Gordie Howe bridge is $700m over budget and 10 months late The Gordie Howe cable-stayed bridge under construction between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan is 10 months behind schedule and C$700m over budget, the authority building it has said. Funded by…
Projects How the world’s longest span connected Asia and Europe Turkish contractor Limak gave GCR a tour of the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, which links Asia and Europe across the Dardanelles Strait. Completed in 2022 after four years, the bridge has…
News AfDB to provide €73m for bridge between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea The African Development Bank (AfDB) is to finance the building of a bridge across the River Ntem between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. The span will link Campo, in Cameroon, to…
News Ayesa bags high-profile jobs in Poland, Italy Seville-headquartered digital and engineering consultant Ayesa has won two high-profile projects this month: a section of high-speed railway in Poland and a bridge in Italy. In Poland it will design…
News Argentina gets $1bn credit package for major new bridge The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $1bn credit package for a new bridge over the Paraná River in northeast Argentina. Its board last week approved a $700m credit…
News Modular bridges restore roads washed out by rain in California California’s San Luis Obispo County has installed two modular steel bridges to restore traffic on remote roads washed out by rainstorms in January and March this year. The bridges were…
News Thailand revives $27bn “land bridge” plan to bypass Singapore An ambitious plan to build a railway across Thailand, first mooted by the government in 2020, is under active consideration once more, the Bangkok Post reports. Srettha Thavisin, the former…
News Bangladesh to open Padma Bridge railway next month The railway that will use the bottom deck of Bangladesh’s awe-inspiring Padma bridge is to be commissioned next month, according to reports in the Chinese media. A 172km railway, which…
News Hochtief announces final girder placed on vital Rhine bridge Hochtief has announced the placing of the last main girder for the reconstruction of the A1 Leverkusen Bridge over the River Rhine. The 1km-long bridge, first opened in 1965, suffered…
News ZHA-designed Jiangxi River bridge completed The 295m-long Chengdu West First Bridge has been completed. It crosses the Jiangxi River, a tributary of the Tuojiang River in China’s Sichuan province. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA),…
News Louisiana picks consortium to replace steep Calcasieu bridge Louisiana’s Department of Transportation has picked a consortium with which to negotiate exclusively for a $2.1bn replacement of the Calcasieu River Bridge, built in 1951 to connect the cities of…
News World’s highest bridge under construction in China’s Guizhou Province Construction has begun on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, a 2,980m-long structure that will cross the Huajiang River in Guizhou Province, southwest China. Dubbed the world’s highest bridge by state…
News Work begins on China’s 1,600m ‘super major bridge’ across Yellow River Construction has begun on the 1,600m-long “super major bridge” that will span China’s Yellow River and link Henan Province Shandong provinces. According to state press agency Xinhua, the bridge will…
News Webuild and IHI complete the EU’s second longest suspension bridge Romania’s 1,975m Braila Bridge has become the longest in the country and the second longest suspension bridge in continental Europe. The Braila, which crosses the Danube in southeast Romania, was…