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NDSEED, a Notre Dame engineering organization with the goal of bringing pedestrian bridges to underdeveloped rural communities in Central and South America, is once again preparing to...

Québec City Now that the weather is heating up, it’s not too painful to revisit a cold week in February. My family spent an early spring break visiting Canada – Ottawa, Montreal and Québec...

In this day and age, big cities are seeking out ways to make their cities really stand out. One increasingly popular way of doing this is to create innovative architectural designs to...

Map photo below by Filpro (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Many of our recent blogs have highlighted some of the most architecturally creative and...

There are many unique bridges in the world today, many of which are designated as historic landmarks. Unfortunately, these celebrated structures are often subject to the whims of Mother...

This week, in our blog series on unique bridges, we're going back to the Netherlands. Amsterdam has a great number of bridges (over 1,200 to be exact) thanks to the various waterways...

In a recent blog, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge needed a height that allowed boats to pass under it. Height is not an issue with this bridge, the next in our series of unique bridges, as...

Watching the weather report this week on the snow storm in Washington D.C. reminded me that I hadn't written a blog about my last visit, when it was sunny and warm (in February!). We were...

To continue our blog series on unique bridges, let's examine another English wonder. While the first thing we may think about in bridge design is what's going over the bridge, consideration...