Update on Landmark Kansas City Bridge Project – kcICON
Failures
Crane topples over Chena River in Fairbanks, Alaska while driving piles for new bridge
A crane using a pile driver to install new foundations for the Barnette Street Bridge project. A DOT (City of Fairbanks?) spokesman speculated that the crane overextended itself while installing piles about 40-ft away. The […]
Standards and Codes
UK railroad engineers now designing with Eurocodes
UK structural and geotechnical engineers have long used the British Standard codes for design of railroad bridges. Those days are now gone as all rail structures are required to use the Eurocode. This article is […]
Project Related
World Record O-Cell Load Test in St. Louis, MO!
My colleage Robert Thompson at Dan Brown and Associates has posted about the World Record O-Cell test they were involved in on the new Mississippi River Bridge for I-70 in St. Louis, Missouri. The new […]