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PrimaCARE gets preliminary OK to build pedestrian bridge across Pleasant Street

PrimaCARE CEO Richard A. Mateus said PrimaCARE, and the medical industry itself, have grown in the city Fall River. That growth has led to an increased

How many stairs to the tops of these iconic tall places?

Here are 10 of some of the most iconic tall places around the world and how many steps it takes to summit them.

$227M Route 79/Braga Bridge Project Largely Complete

By Paul FournierA massive highway and accelerated bridge project in Fall River, Massachusetts, is essentially complete after a three-year design-build undertaking that upgraded the interchange between I-195 and Route 79 and rehabilitated the Braga Bridge over the Taunton RiverWith a total estimated cost of $227 million, the Route 79/Braga Bridge Improvement project is one of the five largest projects of the Massachusetts Department of…

What Is a Trench Collapse?

To successfully provide buildings with the cables, pipes, and drainage that they require, construction workers must excavate. However, this excavation comes at a cost. Construction workers risk their lives to perform the necessary installations in trenches. Unfortunately, the soil and debris can shift without warning, the empty spaces created by the excavation. This is called…

How to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge

Here's everything you need to know about how to get on the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn or Manhattan, and what to do both on the bridge and after!

13 things you didn't know about the Golden Gate Bridge

The amount of wire used to spin the bridge's cable could wrap around the earth three times. Yup.

[VIDEO] 3D-Printed Bridge Uses Gravity to Stand

Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich have built a 3D-printed concrete footbridge named “Striatus” in Venice that is freestanding and assembled without mortar, according to Dezeen. The 52-foot long bridge was constructed from 53 hollow blocks each printed from 500 layers of printed concrete.

7 Reasons to Teach Your Kids Bridge

Forget soccer games and violin lessons, teach your kids something really cool -- bridge. Sure the average age of bridge players is closer to 70 than 7, b...

How much do you know about Humpback Bridge?

How much do you know about Alleghany County's Humpback Bridge?

What Do Bridge Engineers Do and Why Do We Need Them?

Engineers, not just bridge engineers, bring stability to our world as we take our responsibility for the safety and well-being of the public we serve.

Building the Brooklyn Bridge: A Story of Great Determination

Lessons from Flat Bridge

Dean Fraser had a number of outstanding mentors when he started in the ...

Researcher develops wrap treatment to rehabilitate old bridges

A researcher at West Virginia University has developed a method used to repair about 30 bridges across West Virginia. The bridge set for rehabilitation is stripped to a solid portion of steel or concrete and is then covered with mortar and "wrapped tightly with either glass fabric or carbon fabric and resin." said Hota GangaRao, developer of the process. "Not only does it hold things together, but the wrap also enhances the strength of the overall structure."

Add a Bridge to Your Pond or Landscape

Bridges naturally coax you to cross over them to see what's on the other side, which is why they work so well in landscape settings when you want visitors to ex

Too scared to drive over Michigan's Mackinac Bridge? Someone will do it for you

From motorcycles to tractor-trailers, they will drive any vehicle across the bridge.

The Dutch built a water bridge that breaks the laws of physics

fineartamericaArchitectural engineers have created some amazing structures in this world but the Veluwemeer Aqueduct in the Netherlands is truly the best. Most aqueducts are basically bridges that are built above water. But the Veluwemeer Aqueduct is a bridge for the passing ships while those driving in cars go through a tunnel underneath the bridge. In other words, it is an underwater tunnel where the ships sail…