Engineering students from the University of Alberta are literally bridging a gap for communities in South America. The group will head down to Tholamarca, Bolivia, in May to build a 49-metre sag ...

In Rwanda, there are two seasons: wet and dry. In the wet seasons, rivers can become life threatening. In Ruhango, the Rurumanza River connects two districts with a market on one side and a school on ...

Architect Masoud Akbarzadeh and research assistant Boyu Xiao of the Weitzman School of Design, along with collaborators including Yao Lu of Jefferson University, defied conventional engineering by ...

Last year, we co-founded The Building Bridges Project with the goal of promoting civil discourse and engaging in a respectful way with those whom we disagree with. As the old adage goes, “we can ...

As the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge approaches its 60th anniversary on Nov. 21, the monumental feat of engineering remains an integral piece of New York City’s infrastructure. Once the longest suspension ...

In the span of a single generation, China has redefined the limits of civil engineering, transforming itself from a nation reliant on foreign bridge-building expertise to the undisputed architect of ...

One look at any of the bridges today and you’d think the concept of this engineering marvel might just be about two or three centuries old. That’s not the case, though. Bridges have existed since time ...