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Last week, I attended the National Bridge Preservation Partnership Conference in Florida. This conference offers presentations from government agencies and industry on preservation...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...