The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is one of the largest state departments of transportation in the nation, managing more than 50,000 miles of California’s highways, or about ...

The highest total precast concrete building in the world, a single-family precast concrete home on a scenic lake, and a bridge at one of the nation’s busiest airports are some of the winning project ...

Crews picked concrete precast girders as heavy as 93.5 tons from a deteriorated bridge over the Williams River and transferred them to the first of two Vermont Interstate 91 bridge replacements, ...

Keywords: Accelerated bridge construction (ABC). Precast concrete. Segmental bridges. Seismic design. Shaking table tests. Vertical loads. Two-dimensional (2D) models. Nonlinear dynamic analyses.

Bridge engineers need to be prepared to develop bridges using new construction methods and components, and improve the seismic resiliency of bridges to combat the problems associated with aging ...

University researchers have unveiled a new concrete bridge bent system that they say reduces earthquake damage while speeding construction. The new rocking design uses octagonal, prefabricated, ...

The precast and prefabricated elements made of concrete (such as slabs, pillars, beams and walls) are part of the constructive process known as modular construction. A construction methodology carried ...

Seconds before the container ship Dali hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last week and tore it down, killing six construction workers, it sailed past a structure designed to prevent that ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) - Drivers might be able to see a piece of groundbreaking concrete on Interstate 15 at Exit 80 in Fort Hall. It's thanks to the work of Idaho State University researchers. The ...