The restoration of the Bollman Truss Bridge wrapped up this week, returning the landmark to its original “federal red” just ...

Intolerable risk. That was what came to Todd Keller’s mind when Granite Construction looked at the design-build solicitation from the Federal Highway Administration in 2022 to rebuild a section of ...

Like a spider web that flexes to compensate for a broken strand 1, 2, steel truss bridges, which are built from a framework of connected elements, can sometimes withstand the failure of a load-bearing ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- It's a big day for the demolition of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge - the last 288 foot section was removed on Monday. It's the very last truss of the old steel bridge ...

SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - A crew will be making measurements on a historic Shreveport bridge in preparation for design and rehab work. "This is one of two remaining versions of this bridge in the ...

NEW BEDFORD — It was in the 1950s and '60s that engineers began to steer clear of truss bridges of the sort that collapsed in Minneapolis last week. But the mid-'60s was also the heyday of interstate ...

The Gilbert Road truss bridge, removed in 2004 for repair, was gone so long some local residents had doubts the historic bridge across the Quaboag River in West Warren would ever be reopened. Now the ...

Papers documenting various aspects of the development, implementation and research value of the Bollman truss bridge design. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, articles and clippings ...

One notable recent instance where a long-span truss design was considered was the Columbia River Crossing, a joint effort by the states of Oregon and Washington to replace the pair of existing through ...

CLAVERACK — Preservationists want to restore an architecturally significant bridge that for the first 30 years of its life only saw horse-drawn buggies and dairy cows plying its once-busy Claverack ...

“There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody ...