SHIZUOKA--The land ministry is investigating what caused the deadly accident here involving a falling bridge girder, but one general contractor has said an “unbelievable mistake” was committed. The 63 ...

FRANKENMUTH — In some eyes, it’s a rusty, twisted piece of metal, but to a nation, it represents a breach of America’s security and the loss nearly 3,000 lives. A 10-foot-long steel girder, recovered ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The collapse of a girder above Interstate 70 two years ago that killed an Evergreen family was the result of work so poorly conceived and executed that it ...

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 ...

Old System, New Advantages The pressed-brake tub-girder system concept is not new but had never been fully developed, Barth adds. “What we’re doing is taking all the advantages of a large, deep, ...

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 ...

Indore: A 65-meter-long, 400 tonne steel bowstring girder (bowstring arch) was placed atop Luvkush square double-decker ...