Florida agencies are embracing a trapezoidal, curved precast-concrete girder design, used in Colorado more than a decade ago, and Pennsylvania recently has adopted standards for its use. A ...

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The Grist Mill Bridge, a 75-ft single-span bridge in Hampden, Maine, is the first in the nation to use composite tub girders with no concrete reinforcement in the superstructure, say officials. The ...

In a giant laboratory that was built, quite deliberately, on the distant northwest edge of the University of Texas at San Antonio's main campus, a concrete girder rests on metal frames. The girder is ...

Spanish architecture studio Pauzarq uncovered the original concrete girders of this apartment in Bilbao to map its new broken-plan layout. When reconfiguring the 100-square-metre apartment, the ...

BIG SUR – After Caltrans installed nine pre-cast concrete girders at the Rocky Creek slip-out repair site on Highway 1 during a 24-hour period over the weekend, the roadway has been reopened and ...

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