Bay Bridge Paving Flaw a Puzzler
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Maryland officials said yesterday that they are baffled about why a special type of concrete used on other bridge projects failed on a recently repaved section of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a problem that could cost $7 million to fix and promises to delay traffic for months.
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New Jersey backyards may be full of treasure -- who knew?
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TWO veteran code-breakers from Yorkshire have received a worldwide response to their request for solutions to an enigmatic message on a monument in Staffordshire reputed to say where the Holy Grail is hidden.
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The Big Dig &#151; Boston's newly opened &#36;14.6 billion highway tunnel project &#151; has a seriously flawed wall that contractors knew about as early as 1999, and is riddled with hundreds of smaller leaks, consultants reported in another embarrassment for the builders and the city.
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British researchers find a way to close a potential flaw in quantum communication systems.
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There is something almost spectral about the vision of the new bridge across the Tarn Valley at Millau. It is almost as though it is not connected to the normal laws of gravity.
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How do you build a bridge in a region that is bordered by some of the most dangerous fault lines in the world? If you&#39;re the California Department of Transportation, you pull out every engineering trick in the book.
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By MICHAEL ARTZ  The water was rising in Battery Park, and no one was sure why.
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By Sammy Fretwell and John O'Connor, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb. 2--A lawsuit challenging a $150 million Lake Marion bridge project has prompted state road builders to indefinitely delay pursuit of an environmental permit they need to build the bridge.
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Blog: Glaskowsky explains the difference between design flaws and defects.
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An inquiry is urged into why a Londonderry bridge was not closed during high winds  which killed a lorry driver.
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By JILL BARTON     WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.  -- It's not just roofs that have come apart and walls that are falling down...
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By The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Sep. 6--In Panama City Beach, it seems buildings are either coming or going. Except some aren't going fast enough.  Aggressive development has led to two types of eyesores.
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But more will break - it's normal The three - yes, just three - seabed telecoms cables which were broken in two (only two) recent incidents are expected to be fixed by next week, according to the operating companies. The ongoing tinfoil-hat frenzy that has followed the outages may take longer to die down.â¦
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When U.S. soldiers need expert engineering advice -- like how to gauge the structural integrity of a bombed-out bridge in a battle zone -- they contact the Army's crack squad for quick answers. Michelle Delio reports from Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jan. 31--Jones Beach doesn't look like much of a playground this winter, with trees and landscaping torn down, the bike path unusable, parts of the miniature golf course ripped up, the boardwalk sagging and construction equipment plopped about the sand.
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By Justin Carinci, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 20--If Henry J. Biddle, himself a mining engineer, could have imagined feats of engineering such as Interstate 205 and the Glenn Jackson Bridge, he would have been pleased to know he could get lost in the woods under them.