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Mar 21, 2018

Photo courtesy of the National Transportation Safety Board

People across the nation continue to follow unfolding events around the March 16 collapse of the Florida International University (FIU) pedestrian bridge. Our hearts go...

Sep 13, 2017

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 psychological thriller Vertigo, actor James Stewart plays former police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson. Following an incident in the line of duty, Ferguson is forced to retire when he finds he has...

Aug 30, 2017

For many families, summer checkups and sports physicals are part of the back-to-school routine. Therefore, August was an appropriate month for us to perform checkups on our products around the Dayton area, including pedestrian...

Jul 12, 2017

Most bridges today are made with materials such as steel, concrete, fiber composites or bricks. One material that's not used in new construction is rope. However, one of the oldest bridges in the world is a rope bridge. Since...

May 2, 2017

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 complete a bridge in Nicaragua this summer....

Apr 21, 2017

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 City to be precise. That’s right - when...

Apr 18, 2017

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 complement urban landscapes. We’re in the...

Apr 5, 2017

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 unique man-made pedestrian bridges in the...

Apr 4, 2017

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 Nature. When disaster strikes, individuals,...

Mar 28, 2017

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 twisting throughout the city. It's also one of...