AIT Bridges has launched a composite “tub girder,” a U-shaped beam the company says is lighter, lower-cost and longer-lasting than typical concrete and steel girders. COURTESY / AIT BRIDGES AIT ...

Florida agencies are embracing a trapezoidal, curved precast-concrete girder design, used in Colorado more than a decade ago, and Pennsylvania recently has adopted standards for its use. A ...

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 ...

The problem we are trying to solve is the condition assessment of corroded prestressed concrete (PC) bridge girders in New England. The problem is important because that PC bridge girders are a ...

As part of the Lincoln County Bridge Replacement Program, Oldcastle Precast of Spokane, Wash., fabricated 136.8-ft.-long prestressed concrete super girders for the new Miles Creston Bridge in Lincoln ...

BIG SUR – After Caltrans installed nine pre-cast concrete girders at the Rocky Creek slip-out repair site on Highway 1 during a 24-hour period over the weekend, the roadway has been reopened and ...

The Missouri Department of Transportation and the Lunda Team two months ago invited media members on a tour of construction progress of the Lance Cpl. Leon Deraps Interstate 70 Missouri River Bridge ...

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Intending to enhance safety and provide a seamless and jerk-free travel experience to local commuters, the Western Railway has decided to replace steel girders of all bridges and culverts in the ...