Latest Bridges News

Fugro has won a year-long contract worth £6.8M to conduct seabed investigations in the Norwegian fjords for a project which could see the world’s first submerged floating bridge.

The new A57 road and lifting bridge at Barton in Greater Manchester has opened, 18 months after the bridge’s deck partially collapsed during testing.

An Aecom-led consultation on the Third Menai Crossing has opened, with the public urged to look at four options for a crossing over the Menai Strait.

Former London mayor Boris Johnson is to face questioning over his role in the Garden Bridge fiasco, the first time the London Assembly has ever summonsed a previous mayor.

A hi-tech, low-cost system to prevent bridge strikes has been created by researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Smart Infrastructure.

A final five day programme of work has been planned for the Queensferry Crossing to allow the maximum speed limit to be increased to the full 70mph.

Spencer Group has begun the final phase of repairs on the Forth Road Bridge after one of the truss end links, a key part of the structure, failed closing the bridge for three weeks in 2015.

Consulting engineer Cowi has been appointed bridge and tunnel advisor for the Smokovac-Uvac-Matesevo section of Montenegro’s Bar-Boljare highway project.

The world’s first fully 3D printed, prefab concrete bicycle bridge has officially opened.

A design and build contractor for the Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf bridge in east London will not be appointed this autumn as previously thought after Transport for London (TfL) changed its consents strategy for the scheme.