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 ...

New research and development of structural steel construction methods was the primary focus of the North American Steel Construction conference, held April 22 to 24 in Atlanta.

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 department announced Sunday that the girders, which came from a fabrication shop in Bowling Green, Kentucky, arrived around 4:30 p.m. ODOT said the trailers carrying the large steel girders backed ...

Both directions of State Route 520 reopened on-time this morning after crews worked half the weekend to install massive concrete girders in Medina for a future lidded overpass and to create a wider ...

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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