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),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Basel-headquartered architect Christ & Gantenbein is celebrating the construction of a new bridge it designed over the Aare River serving the town of Aarau in northern Switzerland. The completion ends…

Two European engineering and architecture companies Sener and Greisch have won a contract to design and build the fourth bridge over the Panama Canal. The 965m-long cable-stayed bridge will have…

Chinese engineers this week used a smart machine to replace a section of railway bridge in four hours, the South China Morning Post reports. China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) said…

The UK’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), has agreed to issue a buyer credit loan guarantee worth £26.3m that allows the Ukrainian government to to start rebuilding six…

The state of Pennsylvania and the US Federal Highway Administration together this week released $10m in emergency funds to start replacing a section of elevated highway in Philadelphia destroyed by…

The Tanzanian government is planning to build a 50km bridge – the longest in Africa – between Dar es Salaam and the island of Zanzibar, Construct Africa reports. Geofrey Kasekenya,…

A 3,000km railway from China’s Xinjiang autonomous region to the Pakistani port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea would cost $58bn, but a feasibility study says it would be worth…

A railway bridge between China and Russia over the Amur river in southeast Siberia was approved last week, website RailFreight.com reports. The bridge will connect the city of Mohe in…

New Jersey-headquartered bridge maker Acrow has supplied two modular steel bridges to keep traffic flowing during a major bridge replacement project on the busy Interstate 91 (I-91) in Northampton, Massachusetts.…

Skanska has won a $30m contract to replace a near-century-old, steel-and-timber bridge over a big rail yard in Barstow, California as the Mojave Desert city braces for a doubling of…

Canada’s SNC-Lavalin has won a design and engineering contract to replace the Shepard Broad Causeway bridge in south Florida, which crosses the Intracoastal Waterway. SNC-Lavalin will serve as the prime…

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has announced that $2.1bn has been awarded to four projects as part of its First Large Bridge Project Grants. Those chosen…

Swiss contractor Implenia will lead a consortium building a steel composite motorway bridge over the Kiel Canal in northern Germany. DEGES, the state agency in charge of Germany’s road network,…