Thousands of people took to the streets in the Sicilian city of Messina on Saturday to protest against a €13.5bn plan to build the world’s longest suspension bridge over the…

A Webuild-led consortium today won the contract to build the long-planned bridge over the Strait of Messina in Italy to provide the first fixed link between Sicily and the mainland.…

A joint venture between FlatironDragados and Skanska has landed a $1bn contract from the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority to build the Long Bridge North railway bridge in Washington DC. The…

North America’s longest concrete segmental cable-stayed bridge opened to traffic on 28 June. The $1.3bn New Harbor Bridge over the ship channel at the port of Corpus Christi in Texas…

Nigeria’s federal government is considering building a fourth bridge to connect Lagos Island to the mainland because two of the existing ones are decrepit, Arise News reports. The announcement was…

The state government of Madhya Pradesh in northeast India suspended seven engineers on Saturday after images of a road bridge with a right-angle turn went viral on social media. Among…

The state of Rhode Island has picked Walsh Construction Company to replace the decrepit I-95 Washington Bridge in Providence for $339m, creating some light at the end of the tunnel…

Skanska has a contract to replace a road bridge in Massachusetts, and another to construct an engineering building at Virginia Tech University. The first, which is worth $274m, was signed…

Work has finished on the $260m John Magufuli Bridge in Tanzania. The 3.2km structure connects the towns of Busisi and Kigongo across the Mwanza Gulf in the southern coast of…

Danish consulting engineer Cowi has been picked as lead designer in the project to add a suicide deterrent structure on the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge. It’s the second most used…

Six construction workers have been injured after the bridge they were working on collapsed in Maharajganj, Uttar Pradesh, during the evening of Monday 28 April. The bridge was to have…

Skanska has signed a $35m contract to build Sweden’s longest wooden bridge, a 400m-long structure spanning the Skellefte River in the country’s north east. Working on behalf of Skellefteå Municipality,…

Canada’s C$6.4bn Gordie Howe International Bridge linking Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan is due to open in September, but President Trump’s trade war on Canada could make it a white…

Japan’s JFE Engineering and local contractor First Balfour have won a $120m contract to renovate two bridges over the river Pasig in the Metro Manila area. The Guadalupe Bridge and…

The World Bank has signed off on a $150m financing package for Nepal’s Third Bridges Improvement and Maintenance Program. The money will be spent on increasing the organisational capacity of…

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi opened a vertical-lift rail bridge in the southern state of Tamil Nadu yesterday. The 2km New Pamban Bridge connects the mainland with the town of…

Skanska has signed a $421m contract with the New Jersey Transit Corporation to replace a 435m-long rail bridge in Middlesex County. The scope of work on the Raritan River Bridge…

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended that 68 bridges across 19 states should be evaluated after the collapse of Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last year.…