What began as a routine overnight construction closure of southbound I-59/20 in downtown Birmingham, Ala., turned into a weeklong outage when an incomplete steel girder system shifted atop its ...

The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center successfully tested a rapidly deployable bridge system using composite girders and precast concrete deck panels. The bridge system ...

PHOENIX – Construction on the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway interchange at Interstate 10 in west Phoenix will continue to impact Valley traffic, but it won’t be because of girders. Crews installed ...

Wauwatosa police are investigating how a minivan got trapped under a girder on a semi.It happened on Watertown Plank Road near Highway 45 at about 7 p.m. Tuesday.VIDEO: Van strikes bridge girderPolice ...

Installation of huge cement girders like this one was halted at the new Goethals Bridge construction site Friday, when one of them fell from atop support columns shortly after being hoisted into place ...

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