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Civil Engineering News Recap of August 2024

You can now find TheCivilEngineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting civil engineering news of August 2024. Namely, these were: 1) Fir...

New YouTube Channel and Civil Engineering News Recap of July 2024!

TheCivilEngineer.org now has its own YouTube channel, and we are happy to share with you our latest feature, the monthly civil engineering news recap videos! The first video of this series is a comp...

First Heavy Rail Bridge with Carbon Hangers Now in Operation at Oder River

Revolutionary Engineering for a Historic Bridge Trains have made their first crossing over the world's first heavy rail bridge to use carbon hangers, which spans the Oder River at the Poland-Germany...

Emphasis on Aesthetics Led to the Collapse of Tretten Timber Bridge in Norway

Following the collapse of the Tretten Bridge in Norway in August 2022, an official report by the Norwegian Safety Investigation Authority (NSIA) criticized the bridge's design and construction. The b...

Construction crane segment collapses onto downtown Florida bridge

A section of a construction crane collapsed onto a downtown Fort Lauderdale bridge, where it hit two cars on the afternoon of Thursday, April 4, 2024. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue (FLFR) released a s...

Baltimore bridge collapses after collision with container ship

A container ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, around 1:30 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, March 26, resulting in a significant part of the bridge plunging into the water a...

Six visualized proposals for the Sydney Harbour Bridge that didn’t make the cut

The Sydney Harbour Bridge, standing next to the Sydney Opera House in the city’s harbor is the world’s tallest steel arch bridge and one of the country’s most iconic landmarks. Back in 2019, Budget...

An under-construction bridge collapsed in Gujarat: at least 2 fatalities

Two people lost their lives when the girders of an under-construction bridge along National Highway 58 in Palanpur city, Banaskantha, collapsed on Monday afternoon. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, wh...

Italy is set to dispense 12 billion euros for a mega bridge project

The Italian government plans to dispense 12 billion euros for the construction of what would become the world's longest suspension bridge. This ambitious bridge project has been in the planning phase...

Under-construction flyover collapses in India

The girder of an under-construction flyover in Chiplun, India, collapsed on Monday, October the 16th, while the incident was caught on video. It is worth noting that not much information about the e...