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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…