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How Bridge Contractors Can Limit Risk During Challenging Times
Anyone who works on bridges deals with risks every day. It’s a part of life when building and repairing these perilous structures, handling difficult tasks in challenging locations, and managing complex projects. Much of the risk is mitigated by: Following safety standards on job sites. Ensuring that project requirements and expectations are defined in carefully […]
How Bridge Masters Makes the Impossible, Possible
Do you understand how using the right equipment can make challenging bridge inspection and maintenance projects easier — and safer — to do? Most people, even those who do bridge-related work every day, don’t. Here are overviews of three recent bridge initiatives, including information about what made them particularly difficult to work on and how […]
What Happens When Vehicles Stop Crossing Bridges?
Who would have thought that this would be a question that anyone would ever need to think about? But today, many municipalities are asking exactly that. The bridge revenue crisis One of the countless impacts of stay-at-home orders and reduced business activity during the coronavirus pandemic is a devastating decline in bridge tolls and gas […]
The Latest: How COVID-19 Is Impacting Bridge- and Road-Related Operations
Roads & Bridges Media has been conducting an ongoing survey of people in bridge- and road-related industries to find out how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting them and their operations. The respondents work at engineering firms, departments of transportation and other government agencies, contracting businesses, companies that supply building and other materials, businesses that provide […]
Bridge Infrastructure Spending: It’s Back on the Table … Again
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a big impact on all aspects of everyone’s lives and the economy. Even those who design, inspect, maintain, and manage bridges, who are generally not hard hit by economic shifts, have experienced stay-at-home orders and significant work slowdowns. However, there could be good news for people who work on and […]
The COVID-19 Crisis Could Pave the Way for Increased Bridge Infrastructure Spending
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the global economy upside down. Not since the Great Depression has anything happened that’s caused so much uncertainty in people’s everyday lives, throughout the business community, and across the financial markets. Recent legislation passed by Congress may avert an immediate economic and financial collapse in the United States. The main […]
A Cutting-Edge Way to Get a More Complete Picture of the Bridges You Own and Manage
Would you like to have a more thorough understanding of all the structural aspects of all the bridges under your care? How about being able to track wear-and-tear on different types of viaducts, etc. through a single source? Do you want to monitor changes in structural flaws? What if you could get alerts that something […]
Living, Breathing Bridges? It’s Not as “Out There” as You Think!
Concrete is used on most bridge construction and repair projects. And it’s about as lifeless as anything on the planet. For hundreds of years, bridge builders have produced concrete in essentially the same way. They mix hard substances like sand or gravel with binding agents that hold the particles together once the mixture dries and […]
Six MORE Innovations That Moved Bridge Development into the Future
In the first part of this series, we covered six ways that designers, scientists, and engineers have studied past bridge failures to figure out how to build better structures in the future. Here are six more. 1. Fireproofing bridges At a time when more and more bridges are vulnerable to wildfires, terrorist threats, and destructive […]
