When the 1,200-foot-long Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in 1977, its enormous steel-truss design was the state of the art for river crossings. But in the decades since, a more modern design that has ...

Had you crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge just a few weeks ago, as millions of motorists did before a wayward container ship struck it in the early hours of March 26, you’d have passed below a ...

Special projects are built from good decisions, and the Canal Lachine cable stayed bridge—the symbolic centerpiece of the $1.3-billion Turcot Interchange reconstruction project in Montreal—is such a ...

Bridge engineer Arvid Grant may have been feeling poetic on Sept. 8, 1978. Grant was typing up a fact sheet about the unusual cable-stayed bridge he’d designed. The completed bridge soared between ...