Latest Bridges News

Fluor is to “advance the preliminary development” of a new 390km long high speed rail line connecting Dallas and Houston in Texas, USA.

Factory Thinking has well and truly arrived for construction in the UK. Whatever you call it – jumping factories, flying factories, offsite factories or modular building – construction is increasingly resembling manufacturing.

On a computer at Ramboll’s London headquarters, a gantry designs itself. At least, it appears to. The road sign structure starts as a few white lines on black screen, then jumps outwards and upwards, growing like a tree, as lines become bolts, ladders and struts.

The Garden Bridge has been pulled by the Garden Bridge Trust, putting the final nail in the coffin for the troubled project.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has admitted that £50M of public funds has already been spent on the Garden Bridge with almost no prospect of recovering it.

A new £1.4M pedestrian bridge linking Nottingham’s tram system to Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) is to open tomorrow.

Test work to verify concrete at the centre of an investigation into alleged falsification of original strength tests on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao mega-bridge will be completed by October.

The Scottish Parliament’s inquiry into the closure of the Forth Road Bridge in December 2015 following the discovery of a fractured truss-end link concluded that, “the failure had been unforeseen and unforeseeable”.

The bridge carrying the M4 over the River Usk in Newport, South Wales is on first sight unremarkable, but the same cannot be said about work being carried out to repair it.

Transport for London (TfL) is to spend £37M overhauling Lambeth and Waterloo bridges and the surrounding junctions to make them safer for cyclists and pedestrians.