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Foster + Partners wins Upper Orwell Crossings Competition in Ipswich, UK
Foster + Partners wins Upper Orwell Crossings Competition in Ipswich, UK Ipswich is set to see two new river crossings designed by Foster + Partners, together with the comprehensive refurbishment of a...
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Arup and Mabey deliver first rapid assembly, polymer, modular bridge
Arup and Mabey deliver first rapid assembly, polymer, modular bridge The world’s first modular glass-fibre, reinforced polymer bridge has been launched by Arup and Mabey, with Mabey becoming the first...
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New Mabey bridge diverts tankers away from Bournemouth community
New Mabey bridge diverts tankers away from Bournemouth community Leading bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey has installed a new bridge over the River Stour in Bournemouth, England, on be...
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Mabey Bridge build temporary bridge over the River Spey to carry 197 tonne construction traffic
Mabey Bridge build temporary bridge over the River Spey to carry 197 tonne construction traffic A temporary bridge built over the River Spey in Scotland will support construction of the new SSE Melgar...
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Bridges 2017 celebrates 25 years of driving Europe’s Bridge Industry forward
Bridges 2017 celebrates 25 years of driving Europe’s Bridge Industry forward The Annual Conference and Exhibition for the Bridge construction industry, Bridges 2017 – returns on the 16th March a...
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COWI Engineers build 60m footbridge for local community in Rwanda
COWI Engineers build 60m footbridge for local community in Rwanda The community of Rugusa, Rwanda, is celebrating the opening of a brand new 60 metre footbridge completed by COWI engineers, a local co...
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Turkey weighing bids for new Suspension Bridge over the Dardanelles Strait
Turkey weighing bids for new Suspension Bridge over the Dardanelles Strait A consortium of Turkish and South Korean firms has emerged as the frontrunner to build a 3.6km suspension bridge over the Dar...
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Robots and 3D Printing revolutionising bridge construction
Robots and 3D Printing revolutionising bridge construction In the Netherlands, a Dutch start-up called MX3D plans to 3D print the first steel bridge. The bridge will span over an Amsterdam canal by us...
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Scotland announce bidding for new Expansion Joints on Forth Road Bridge
Scotland announce bidding for replacement of Expansion Joints on Forth Road Bridge Transport Scotland is advertising for a suitable contractor to take on a £9 million programme of works to replace the...
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New bridge opening provides travel boost for Sri Lankan communities
A new bridge across Sri Lanka’s Mahaweli River in Kandy was officially opened on the 6 January, 2017, by His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri...
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Wales looks forward to a new bridge over the Menai Straits
Wales looks forward to a new bridge over the Menai Straits Thomas Telford’s original Menai Suspension Bridge opened in 1826 and Robert Stephenson’s Britannia Tubular Bridge followed in 1850 to carry r...
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Trinity, a giant bridge building machine finishes work on the Mersey Gateway
Trinity, a giant bridge-building machine finishes work on the Mersey Gateway in England Trinity, one of the Mersey Gateway’s two giant bridge-building machines, has finished work in Widnes marking ano...
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World’s highest bridge on the Guanxing Highway opens in Southwest China
The Beipanjiang Bridge on the Guanxing Highway near Xingbei Town (Xinbeizhen), Zhenfeng County, Guizhou Province, Southwest China is now the world’s highest bridge. The bridge opened to traffic on the...
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Tanzania awarded AfDB loan for consultancy and design for bridge and bypass
The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania has received loans from the African Development Bank (AfDB) towards the cost of undertaking their Transport Sector Support Programme (TSSP) and intend...
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Britain’s Mersey Gateway Bridge uses PERI’s Self Climbing Formwork
Mersey Gateway Bridge, Runcorn to Widnes, Great Britain Merseyside in North-West England is embracing significant improvements to its transport systems thanks to the landmark construction of the Merse...
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Road bridge reconstructed over a weekend shown in time-lapse video
The time-lapse video shows the demolition and reconstruction of the Station Road Bridge in Hucknall, Nottingham, England. The 140 year old, 6 span bridge carries an average 9,000 vehicles a day. The b...
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Egypt & Saudi Arabia to build 30 mile bridge over the Red Sea
Egypt & Saudi Arabia to build 30 mile bridge over the Red Sea Egypt and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement to build a bridge over the Red Sea from Ras Nasrani, which is close to the Egyptian re...
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Stirling Lloyd’s Eliminator waterproofing system protects Turkey’s bridges
Stirling Lloyd’s Eliminator waterproofing system protects Turkey’s bridges Stirling Lloyd’s Eliminator advanced bridge deck waterproofing system was specified for the waterproofing of two new high pro...
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AfDB approves US$3m grant for feasibility studies for Central Africa roads & bridges
The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Monday, November 1, 2016, approved a US $3.04-million grant to assist the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) to undertake studies for the Kribi...
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Drive from London to America on a 12,400 mile highway!
Drive from London to America on a 12,400 mile highway! Russians think big and this ambitious proposal would create the world’s longest highway. The route would start in Britain, pass through the Chann...
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How China is building its bridges
How China is building its bridges China’s heavy machinery industry is progressing in leaps and bounds as this video shows. The 580 tonne SLJ900/32 is 91.8 metres long, 7.4 metres wide and 9 mete...
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