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Building Kosovo’s first motorways has involved some ingenious thinking and no small amount of innovation. This has been especially so when it comes to upskilling a workforce in a country where a project of this scale has not been attempted before.  After Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, its…

It may be 100 times smaller than the UK’s biggest infrastructure project, but High Speed 2 engineers have taken inspiration from Luton Airport’s new light rail link.

Parts of an unused Scottish wind turbine are helping in the effort to replace the Cogden Beck bridge in the Yorkshire Dales that was swept away during recent floods.

A new bridge spanning a harbour in Copenhagen has opened, representing key innovation in the moveable bridges sector. The Lille Langebro bridge is a double-opening swing bridge that spans a total of 160m and will be open to use by pedestrians and cyclists. It has been designed by multi-disciplinary engineering…

On the first anniversary of the collapse of the Polcevera viaduct in Genoa, Italy which killed 43 people, engineers overseeing the demolition and rebuild have outlined the plans.

A light rail track is being installed on a floating bridge for the first time ever, as part of a £4.5bn project. The project will see a new track installed on a US bridge which currently carries a section of the Interstate 90 highway across Lake Washington between Seattle and…

The controversial Tintagel bridge in Cornwall will be opened to the public this weekend, it has been revealed. The £5M bridge, built by English Heritage, is a replica of the original land bridge that connected a 13th century castle to the mainland more than 500 years ago. Despite being unveiled…

Engineers are preparing temporary structures to replace and reinforce two bridges destroyed during flooding last week in Yorkshire.

Thousands of tonnes of former bridge steel, concrete, and other material is being used to form artificial reefs off the coast of New York State.

A value engineering exercise carried out by Atkins suggested design changes to shave as much as £135M off the final cost of Transport for London’s (TfL) proposed Rotherhithe Crossing, New Civil Engineer can reveal.