SHIZUOKA--The land ministry is investigating what caused the deadly accident here involving a falling bridge girder, but one general contractor has said an “unbelievable mistake” was committed. The 63 ...

At around 2.50 am, a final push detached the girder, leaving it suspended in mid-air. Claps and cheers followed as workers guided the metal span using ropes, rotating it ninety degrees to align with ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The collapse of a girder above Interstate 70 two years ago that killed an Evergreen family was the result of work so poorly conceived and executed that it ...

Old System, New Advantages The pressed-brake tub-girder system concept is not new but had never been fully developed, Barth adds. “What we’re doing is taking all the advantages of a large, deep, ...

June Bjorndahl White has woven the iconic image of 11 ironworkers sitting high on a girder above New York City into the fabric of her life. A framed black-and-white poster of the photo hangs ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Contractors in May 2004 braced a steel bridge girder above Interstate 70 to deal with one potential problem but did not account for the catastrophic ...

Initial stabilization of two problem built-up plate girders at the Salesforce Transit Center in seismically active San Francisco, using a beam and tower shoring system to relieve loads on the girders, ...