Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu January 23, 2025
Skanska Brings Engineering Muscle to Manage Bridge Jobs in Bay State
Design-build contracts can offer the benefits of a large construction firm's intimate knowledge of what it does best to be applied to a community project. The result can be cost and time savings, improved safety and other benefits....
CEG - Wed January 22, 2025
VIDEO: Helicopter Flexes Muscles at Birmingham, Ala. Airport; AFC Launches Bridge Program
Like a scene out of a movie, Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM) in Alabama conducted an equipment replacement operation Jan. 15 that involved a heavy-duty helicopter lifting, transporting and lowering cooling towers in various locations....
S&B USA - Mon January 20, 2025
Long Bridge Rail Partners Awarded Long Bridge South Project
Long Bridge Rail Partners (LBRP) — a joint venture of Trumbull Corp.; Fay, S&B USA Construction (Fay); and Wagman Heavy Civil Inc. — announced their selection by the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) as the design-build contractor for a key component of the Long Bridge Project to provide increased capacity for passenger rail over the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Va....
Burlington Free Press & VTrans - Thu January 16, 2025
Federal Funds Totaling $25.8M Slated to Replace Readsboro Bridge in Southern Vermont
Vermont will receive $25.8 million in federal funding to help replace the Readsboro Bridge, which spans the Deerfield River in the small rural town of Readsboro, the Burlington Free Press reported Jan....
MaineDOT & WCSH-TV - Thu January 16, 2025
MaineDOT Prevails in Federal Court Decision On Frank J. Wood Bridge Replacement
A federal appeals court in Boston has affirmed a lower court's decision supporting the Maine Department of Transportation's planned replacement of the Frank J. Wood Bridge over the Androscoggin River connecting the towns of Brunswick and Topsham, MaineDOT announced in a Jan....
ODOT - Wed January 15, 2025
New Girders for Daniel Beard Bridge Arrive On Site
Since the Nov. 1 fire at the southbound approach to the I-471/Daniel Carter Beard Bridge, there have been hundreds of people and dozens of companies involved in the Ohio Department of Transportation's efforts to restore the structure that connects downtown Cincinnati to Newport, Ky....
BNSF - Wed January 15, 2025
BNSF '24 Wrap Up: N.D. Bridge Project
With 2024 wrapped up, the BNSF bridge project team is midway through construction of a new railroad bridge at Bismarck, Mandan. Equipment has been removed from the Missouri River as crews demobilized on-water activities for the winter....
Maryland Matters & Baltimore Sun - Tue January 14, 2025
VIDEO: Maryland Approves $75M Contract for Consortium to Manage Key Bridge's Rebuild
The Maryland Board of Public Works approved a $75 million contract Jan. 8 to hire three firms that will oversee construction management services on the Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River in Baltimore when the replacement project gets under way this spring....
Ryan LaFontaine – TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - Tue January 07, 2025
TxDOT Honored as Bridge Owner of the Year By NSBA
The National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA) recently honored TxDOT as its inaugural recipient of the Owner of the Year award for the agency's trailblazing efforts in bridge design and construction. The award — the first of its kind — recognizes extraordinary bridges and the builders whose vision and dedication to the public keep America moving....
New Bedford Standard-Times - Tue December 31, 2024
New Bedford, Mass., Leaders Want New Vertical Lift Bridge to Be Aesthetically Pleasing
The more than 120-year-old New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge in Massachusetts will be going from "swing" to "vertical lift" when it is finally replaced, according to state plans. That is, instead of opening by swinging horizontally, as it has throughout its history, a section of the bridge will be raised to allow vessels to pass underneath....
